Convert Excel to CSV

[Aaron Grewell]

I don't know of a utility for this, but depending on how you like Perl
it shouldn't be that hard to do.  There's a module for working with
Excel documents on CPAN.

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 06:05, Tim Wunder wrote:
> I'm trying to find a command line utility that will convert an Excel 
> file to a .csv text file.
> 
> I've found catdoc & xls2csv at 
> http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/ice/catdoc/, which looks like it should do 
> the trick. I've downloaded, compiled and installed it. Unfortunately, 
> when I try to execute
> $ xls2csv -x FileName.xls
> I get this error:
> FileName.xls is not OLE file or Error
> 
> Any ideas? Any recommendations for a different utility that would 
> perform the conversion?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
> 
> 
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