From: "Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>
Subject: Re: import Excel file
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:23:48 GMT
Date: 2004-06-14T18:23:48+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <U2mzc.95924$dP1.311291@newsc.telia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <caknnm$kvt$3@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Just reading in an Excel file isn't probably promising, because
> it is not a text file. The structure of the binary data isn't
> usually known.
At least Microsoft tries to keep it secret. The Openoffice developers
seem to have figured it out fairly well, so there's always the
possibility of looking at their code. It's probably very hairy.
> However, you could try exporting sheets to CSVs,
> and read these with less effort.
Personally I'd prefer TSV (tab-separated) if Excel can produce that.
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Björn Persson
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2004-06-14 16:32 import Excel file Tanker
2004-06-14 17:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-14 18:18 ` tmoran
2004-06-14 18:23 ` Tanker
2004-06-15 1:11 ` Jeff C,
2004-06-15 21:24 ` Pascal Obry
2004-06-14 18:23 ` Björn Persson [this message]
2004-06-15 5:51 ` Martin Krischik
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