ILOG OPL Development Studio Language Reference Manual

Connection to a spreadsheetThe spreadsheet operations in OPL all refer to a spreadsheet connection. The instruction/* .dat file */SheetConnection sheet("transport.xls");establishes a connection sheet to a spreadsheet named transport.xls. The connectionsheet should be viewed as a handle on the spreadsheet. Note that it is possible in OPL toconnect to several spreadsheets within the same model.Note that SheetConnection takes only one parameter and that you don't need to specifythe full path to the spreadsheet name. Relative paths are resolved using the current directoryof .dat files.Note: In this section, we often use the word “spreadsheet” for “spreadsheet connection”.I L O G O P L D E V E L O P M E N T S T U D I O L A N G U A G ER E F E R E N C E M A N U A L67