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From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: import Excel file
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:18:05 GMT
Date: 2004-06-14T18:18:05+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xZlzc.41613$0y.7798@attbi_s03> (raw)
In-Reply-To: caknnm$kvt$3@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de

>it is not a text file. The structure of the binary data isn't
>usually known. However, you could try exporting sheets to CSVs,
>and read these with less effort.
  Just run Excel and look at all the different choices for exporting
data.  With simple numbers, Comma Separated Values is simple, but
it gets a little nastier with text, especially text with commas and
quotes.  Or you can read the data by using an Ada database binding
and using the Excel data as a database source.  There's also SYLK
files, which are text and contain the formulas and formats as well
as the data.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-14 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-14 16:32 import Excel file Tanker
2004-06-14 17:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-14 18:18   ` tmoran [this message]
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
2004-06-15  5:51 ` Martin Krischik
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