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Subject: Re: Lazarus and FreePascal
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On 2016-08-23, P E Schoen <paul@pstech-inc.com> wrote:
> I plan to build a new project that will read a huge CSV text file (about 1.8 
> GB), and split it into more manageable file sizes that can be converted to 
> spreadsheet format with Open Office. It has a maximum of 1048576 lines with 
> an ODS file of 11.2 MB. This is a database of all songs in the ASCAP 
> database. It was supplied in a 288 MB zipfile.

Using fpspreadsheet (in fpc/lazarus) you can churn out office files
directly, without having an office installed.  (and at least as important,
decoupling your applications from Office version)