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by bonjournrk

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Hi,
Im trying to solve a particular program.It is as follows:
There is an excel sheet containing the list of 20 people and their birthdays.I also do have a Group Id(having all the 20 people).Now Im trying to write a code which scans through the xl sheet to check if any of those people's birthday falls today & in case there is a match, an email saying "Happy Birthday" must be sent to the group id so that every on e knows about it.
COuld anyone help me out with a simple code?
Thanks.
Kali.

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by wayne m.

Unless there is a solid reason to use Excel and C, I would suggest going with Microsoft Access and VB instead.

There are lots of reference books for Access available (I have "Microsoft Office Access 2003" by John L.Viescas, but there are others equally as good), and it is available as part of Microsoft Office, just like Excel. If you have an existing Excel spreadsheet, you can import it into Access to get started.

If you are going to try and do this in C, you will need to learn COM to access Excel directly and also to call MAPI (the e-mail interface). This will not be a simple excercise!

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