Parsing Excel Data in Apple Swift

Question

My current workflow involves using Applescript to essentially delimit Excel data and format it into plain text files. We\'re pushing towards an all Swift environment, but I

Answer 1

It's somewhat unclear if you're trying to eliminate Excel as a dependency (which is not unreasonable: it costs money and not everyone has it) or AppleScript as a language (totally understandable, but a bad practical move as Apple's alternatives for application automation all suck).

There are third-party Excel-parsing libraries available for other languages, e.g. I've used Python's openpyxl (for .xlsx files) and xlrd (for .xsl) libraries successfully in my own projects. And I see through the magicks of Googles that someone's written an ObjC framework, DHlibxls, which [assuming no dynamic trickery] should be usable directly from Swift, but I've not used it myself so can't tell you anything more.