Introduced in A-Shell 6.3, AXL provides a fully-featured application interface for reading and writing Excel spreadsheet (XLS) files. It is packaged as a collection of A-ShellBASIC functions and procedures built around a third-party library called LibXL. Although the individual functions are all relatively straightforward and intuitive, because there are so many of them (125+), rather than redundantly document them all here, instead we’ll focus on providing overview, tutorial, index, examples, etc., and rely on API source code (libxl.bsi) for the function-level reference documentation.

History

2019 July, A-Shell 6.5.1662, Linux:  AXL library module (libxl.so) now supports up to version 3.8.5; previous limit was 3.7.2. Numerous minor improvements and bug fixes, particularly in the area of XLSX support.