Excel driver for output not working as expected

[Meketon, Marc]

I am having problems with the Excel driver for writing results.  It is not properly clearing out old results.

 

Since I’m on 64-bit hardware and operating system, I need to use the newer versions of Excel (that ones that write to .xlsx files).  I am also on Windows 10.

 

Using the latest GLPK build (4.65), I modified the example  sudoku_excel.mod  by these two changes:

 

In line 50:

  'DRIVER={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb)};dbq=.\sudoku.xlsx'

 

And in line:

  'DRIVER={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb)};READONLY=FALSE;dbq=.\sudoku.xlsx'

 

Also, I saved the existing  sudoku.xls  into the newer format and called it  sudoku.xlsx

 

When I run the problem **twice** from the  examples\sql  directory, using the command line:

..\..\w64\glpsol.exe --model sudoku_excel.mod

 

I find that the solution has 81 blank rows, then the solution starts on row 83.  So while the ‘UPDATE’ statement clear out the old results, it begins to put the new results below.