Convert Excel to CSV

[Aaron Grewell]

> 
> 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.

The OpenOffice.org SDK may be worth a look as well.  If you can
instantiate Calc, open the file, and then export it again from a script
that might be a workable method.