read excel files?

Is there a mod that can read microsoft excel files?

The old-style .xls format? Not to my knowledge.

There appear to be plenty pay-for libraries available to do it though. (geepers, don't they charge a lot for those things!)

what about other formats like CSV?

comma-separated files are pretty easy to read...

Read a line.
Split it by comma.

Someone may even have an example in the code archives.

ah OK thanks

The tokenizer in the codearchive is nice for splitting strings by comma
or whatever.
http://blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1460