Question

I have an excel spread sheet (well, hundreds of them) which I need importing into a database.
If the excel data was in a nice uniform format I would simply save them out to CSV, read them in using something like LINQ to CSV and save the required data away.

However, the excel spread sheet is ‘uneven’ in that different groups of cells contain different data.
I need a way of grabbing the data and then working with cell references to grab the bits I need and save them to the database.

What’s the best way to achieve this?

Thanks

UPDATE some more information

I have numerous spread sheets, all identical in structure that need to be imported into a database. The import is not simple in that different chunks of data from the spread sheet will go into different tables. The excel document itself contains a few sections (basically question / answer) type data. For each different section I need to grab the data, shape it into a form that makes sense in terms of the database and save it.

Ideally I would like to create a quick little WPF app that will let me select a spread sheet hit a button and perform the import.

Answer 1

To those who may be interested I ended up using LinqToExcel:
http://code.google.com/p/linqtoexcel/

Did exactly what I was after with minimal fuss. Excellent