Convert Excel to CSV

[Tim Wunder]

On 4/28/2004 2:03 PM, I believe that R. Quenett wrote:

> " 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.
> 
> This won't help if the command line is a critical requirement but OOo 
> has an export to cvs option. I don't know how well it works. I've had 
> good luck importing and converting m$ files with OOo).  Excel might 
> also.
> 


Command line (well, scriptable) is required. The Perl module thingy 
Aaron mentioned may work. It'd give me an excuse to learn a little Perl.

The task is to download a customer's excel file, convert it to csv, and 
upload it into a legacy system. I currently have a cron job wget'ing the 
Excel file, but process it manually from there.

FWIW, Excel reads and writes .csv.

Thanks,
Tim