Hello World: Simple getting started example

Program to create a simple Hello World style Excel spreadsheet using the rust_xlsxwriter library.

Image of the output file:

Image of output from app_hello_world.rs

Code to generate the output file:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT OR Apache-2.0 // // Copyright 2022-2024, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org //! Create a simple Hello World style Excel spreadsheet using the //! rust_xlsxwriter library. use rust_xlsxwriter::{Workbook, XlsxError}; fn main() -> Result<(), XlsxError> { // Create a new Excel file object. let mut workbook = Workbook::new(); // Add a worksheet to the workbook. let worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet(); // Write a string to cell (0, 0) = A1. worksheet.write(0, 0, "Hello")?; // Write a number to cell (1, 0) = A2. worksheet.write(1, 0, 12345)?; // Save the file to disk. workbook.save("hello.xlsx")?; Ok(()) }