[Gllug] Excel spreadsheets

tet at accucard.com tet at accucard.com
Thu Jul 26 13:01:33 UTC 2001


>I have been unable to find anything.   The nearest thing appeared to be
>'catdoc', but the write-up on this does not appear to fit the bill.

catdoc only works with Word files, but xls2csv (included in the catdoc
distribution) should do exactly what you're looking for.

Note that CSV isn't a standard format, and there are subtle differences
even between the way Excel handles CSV, and other MS application do, for
example.

Tet

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