ellypaws / excel-tools

Excel Tools

This repository contains a set of tools for data processing with Excel files, written in Go.

Database Tool (database.go)

The database.go tool is designed to automatically create tables and insert data from an Excel file into a SQLite database. It watches for changes in the Excel file and updates the database accordingly.

Features

• Watches for changes in the specified Excel file and updates the SQLite database in real-time.
• Automatically creates tables in the SQLite database based on the structure of the Excel file.
• Inserts data from the Excel file into the corresponding SQLite database tables.

Usage

1. Ensure that the SQLite database file exists in the same directory as the database.go file. If it doesn't exist, the tool will create it.
2. Run the database.go tool. It will start watching for changes in the excel.xlsx file in the same directory.
3. Any changes made to the excel.xlsx file will be reflected in the SQLite database.

Prerequisites

• Go version 1.21 or later.
• The following Go packages are required:
  • database/sql
  • github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify
  • github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
  • github.com/xuri/excelize/v2

Please note that the tool currently watches the excel.xlsx file by default. Future versions will allow the filename to be configurable.

Important: You must have CGO_ENABLED=1 set in your environment to use this tool. You must also have a valid GCC in your path. If you are using Windows, you can download a pre-built GCC from here.