DanPantry, very unlikely. Only problem I have with xls2csv is what If I have multiple worksheets in an single excel and want them to be separate CSV. So, if your xls is succesfully parsed with xls2csv mine are not, so I can't test it , you can either split output file with some more bash magic, like here ; or you can capture output into Ruby with popen , and just use regular split method on it.
Mine neither are getting parsed :. Be sure you're using the up-to-date Roo 1. I tried this example with roo gem but it was very slow. Shanky Munjal Shanky Munjal 5 5 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. There is this also as an alternative github. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.
The Overflow Blog. A conversation about how to enable high-velocity DevOps culture at your It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. However it doesn't do the reverse. I'm not worried if it only generates a very simple XLS file, and doesn't support the fancy new versions.
Just so long as it's an XLS spreadsheet. Try using the ssconvert tool from "gnumeric" package. On Debian, install the package with sudo apt-get install gnumeric and then from the command-line, run:.
Why would you want to do that? If that does not work for you for some reason, keep in mind, that, as far as I know, you can generate a sort of valid xls file by using the following skeleton:. There is a python based solution on Sourceforge called csv2xls which may fit the bill. It does not appear to be maintained at the moment last activity was over a year ago but if it does what you need then that shouldn't matter too much.
If I get it correctly you want to do it on the command line within some scripts. Though the intended file extension for this format is. This feature is widely used by third-party applications e. The following example will be correctly opened by Excel if saved either as Book1. Alternately, if that didn't provide enough features, I'd directly implement minimal.
It is a zip file with XML files which should be tractable compared to the old binary formats. I would argue that a. CSV file is already an Excel file with the features you want. Gunzip and tar it like we did in previous section and go the extracted directory and use the following commands to install it:.
While installing xls2csv, it will give error that the mentioned perl modules have not been installed. It will ask you to download the modules. Download and install these modules when asked. All these module installation requires root privileges. If you do not have root access, then you should follow the instruction given here to install a Perl module. Option x and c means xls and csv are used to specify the input and output files where as b and a means before and after are used to specify the respective character encoding.
We have use the same character encoding as in previous tool. Pros : Good with western European character conversion and date fields, supports selective multiple sheet conversion,. Cons : Several Perl modules need to be installed, first cell should not be empty otherwise it skips the whole row , messes with quotes. There are couple of other ways as well. Some scripts in Python and Java are also available to use but they are not as good as these two discussed here. Item 0 oBook. SaveAs WScript. Item 1 , 6 oBook.
Close False oExcel. Quit WScript. Echo "Done". Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 11 people found this reply helpful. I'm sorry but you will have to provide a better description of what you hope to accomplish.
CMD batch would do. Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit. Please see the following article. There isn't much sense in debugging your script if your machine cannot run it. Another prerequisite is a working copy of Excel. Simply creating an Excel. Application object does not mean a thing unless Excel is installed on the machine to begin with. Perhaps you could confirm that. Its a open source application with a command prompt and you can convert large xls files to csv without even opening it with a single command.
There are many other utilities available apart from csv conversion. As others replied, Excel in itself does not have a ready made solution to meet your requirements, there are workarounds, which experts have generously written about. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Eslam Elbyaly.
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