How to Change CSV to Excel in C++

There are many applications that produce a comma-separated file that needs to be converted to an Excel file. This tutorial will guide you on how to change CSV to Excel in C++. After converting the source file from CSV to Excel in C++, it will be saved as an XLSX file.

Steps to Change CSV to Excel in C++

  1. Configure your project to add Aspose.Cells.Cpp using NuGet Package Manager
  2. Add Aspose::Cells namespace reference to the application
  3. Load the input CSV file into the Workbook class object that is to be converted to Excel
  4. Save the loaded workbook as XLSX on the disk containing the data from the CSV file

These steps simply describe the process of converting CSV to Excel in C++ where necessary namespaces are mentioned which are required for this conversion. First, you need to load the sample CSV file into a Workbook object that is to be converted to an Excel file. In the next step, you save the workbook on the disk by providing the path and file name.

Code to Convert CSV File to Excel in C++

In this code, we have used Factory::CreateIWorkbook function to load the CSV file however, you can load any other type of Excel file as well. The Save function in the Workbook class is used to save the Excel file by providing the output file name along with the enumerator SaveFormat_Xlsx. You may use any other enumerator for saving the file to some different format.

This tutorial has explained the process to convert CSV to Excel in C++. If you want to work in reverse order, refer to the article on how to convert Excel file to CSV in C++.

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