Read Excel spreadsheet from memory buffer in C++

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Reading from memory buffer

This example shows how to read an Excel spreadsheet from memory buffer.

#include "libxl.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace libxl;

int main() 
{   
    std::fstream stream("input.xls", std::ios_base::in | std::ios_base::binary);
    if(!stream) 
    {
        std::cout << "file not found" << std::endl;
        return 1;
    }

    stream.seekg(0, std::ios_base::end);
    unsigned size = stream.tellg();
    char* buf = new char[size];
    stream.seekg(0, std::ios_base::beg);
    stream.read(buf, size);

    Book* book = xlCreateBook();
    
    if(book->loadRaw(buf, size))
    {
        Sheet* sheet = book->getSheet(0);
        std::wcout << sheet->name() << std::endl;
    }
    else
    {
        std::cout << book->errorMessage() << std::endl;
        return 1;
    }

    delete[] buf;
   
    return 0;
}