Convert Excel to CSV

[Tim Wunder]

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 5:25 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > StarOffice can import excel and export cvs.
> >
> > With macros, this could be automated, they tell
> > me. StarOffice basic and API seem to be serious tools.
>
> OpenOffice does this too, and doesn't cost $$$

Excel can read XLS and export CSV. That's not the issue. 
The ultimate destination for the data is a BBx file (http://www.basis.com -- 
and no, all the cool ODBC stuff they brag about is not do-able, old hardware 
(RS6000 520h) and old O/S (AIX 3.2.5) kinda prevents it) on an old AIX 
server. I need something scriptable, and automated, that can be run as a cron 
job on my Redhat 7 server (yeah, that's old too...). The Perl module looks 
like the best bet, right now, since I can't get xls2csv to work.

Thanks, 
Tim
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