parsing excel

hi all
i need to parse an excel file on a remote server

i searched on the web but i've found only proprietary class

anybody knows free script to parse an excel?

i'm working on linux without odbc

tnx

There are many scripts out there that will parse a csv (dilimited) file. You
may want to convert an Excel file to CSV and use one of the hundreds of CSV
parse scripts out there.

-JKD


"Josh" <josh@nospam.pixael.com> wrote in message
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> hi all
> i need to parse an excel file on a remote server
>
> i searched on the web but i've found only proprietary class
>
> anybody knows free script to parse an excel?
>
> i'm working on linux without odbc
>
> tnx
>
>

"jkd" <jkd@anon.org> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> There are many scripts out there that will parse a csv (dilimited) file.
You
> may want to convert an Excel file to CSV and use one of the hundreds of
CSV
> parse scripts out there.

it's a good idea... but how can i automatic convert an excel to csv? i have
to use perl?

i have just create a script to parse a csv

tnx

"Josh" <josh@nospam.pixael.com> wrote in
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> it's a good idea... but how can i automatic convert an excel to csv? i
> have to use perl?
>
> i have just create a script to parse a csv

Think he means that you could export your excel document to CSV from excel
itself. I guess this might be a problem with your remote solution, though?

Why would you use Perl for it? PHP can do everything Perl can do, at least
as well as Perl does.

KAH