[Gllug] Excel spreadsheets

[Darran D. Rimron-Molloy]

On 21 Sep 2026 09:13:38 +0000, t.clarke wrote:

> I have searched high and low for a linux/unix program (preferably in C)
> that will take a file in Excel 'native' format as input and spit out the
> file contents in 'csv' format  (ie the equivalent of opening the file in
> Excel and using the 'saveas' option to save in comma separated format).
[...]

> Does anyone have any suggestions.

Instant answer would be "Gnumeric" - which rocks when it comes to
handling Excel files, I admit I don't do alot of work with Excel but I
am yet to have it fail on me.... Including some rather nice complex
tables....

> PS:  use of excel files is not our choice  - we get the wretched things
> by email and have to ftp them internally to a windoze box, convert them on
> that to csv, and ftp them back to the unix box for insertion into a Cobol
> 'database' !

Ok, so Gnumeric is X based, certainly not automatic - but you can do it
without FTPing all over the shop - alternativly, you could probably hack
out the Excel support from it and make it export to CSV - I dunno, never
realy loked at the source code to be honest....

	-Darran



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