Only parse specific sheets in a workbook?

[btrepp]

I'm wanting to extract data out of a certain sheet in a workbook. The gem seems to process everything into memory. Some of the other sheets can be quite large.

Is there a way to tell the gem to only parse a certain sheet I am interested in?.

[weshatheleopard]

So far it is not possible, although I believe it can be implemented (although in that case the spreadsheet will become read-only, and it will not be possible to save it). Can you propose an API for that functionality?

[btrepp]

Off the top of my head the same API etc would be cool, but perhaps just lazily evaluated?.

Eg returning the same workbook but only accessing the sheets when called?. :)

[weshatheleopard]

Lazy loading will require significant effort to implement. So far the only reasonable approach I see is skip parsing the sheet once we see it's not the one we want.