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Asked: 2026-06-08T09:37:20+00:00

I need to export some data to an .XLS file, pdf, and print. I

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I need to export some data to an .XLS file, pdf, and print.

I already tried the simple solution: exporting it to .CSV with CHCSVWriter. It works for printing and saving it to pdf (I open the CSV in a UIWebView and get the PDF or print from there). However, to use the CSV to be open in excel has two main problems:

1 – First, as the name says, in the CSV the values are separated by commas, and in some versions of Excel, it requires the user to separate ‘manually’ in cells.

2 – I have hebrew characters, and I already tried all the string encodings, and can’t have both hebrew and latin characters.

So, after giving up after days of trying to use CSV to solve the issues above, I gave up. How can I export my data to XLS?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This article explains how to programmatically create an Excel (.xls) file without using any external library. It just opens a file stream and it writes XML contents straight to it.

    It is written in C#, but the core information coming out of it is the XML formatting used to create nodes and fill attributes for corresponding cell values and formatting.

    Please consider I have not tried this myself, I found it while doing a search. Please feel free to ask if some C# bits are not clear. HTH

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