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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How a program to convert '|' delimited file into excel? Post 25726 by peter.herlihy on Sunday 4th of August 2002 03:10:45 AM
Old 08-04-2002
You can't create an excel file in any other application apart from excel. You can however create a file in a text format that can open in excel....this is your only method.

I would think the only way you can acheive your aim is to create the file in unix with an '.xls' extension...then mail it directly from unix.

When the file is received they can open it with Excel...you will have to change the file to a tab delimiter to make it open in the appropriate columns...other delimiters will not be recognised unless they are specified when converting text to columns.

I don't see any other way around this I'm afraid. If you want help with the automated mailing of files then use search as it's a popular topic for discussion.
 

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FINFO_FILE(3)								 1							     FINFO_FILE(3)

finfo_file - Return information about a file

       Procedural style

SYNOPSIS
string finfo_file NULL NULL (resource $finfo, string $file_name, [int $options = FILEINFO_NONE], [resource $context]) DESCRIPTION
Object oriented style string finfo::file NULL NULL (string $file_name, [int $options = FILEINFO_NONE], [resource $context]) This function is used to get information about a file. PARAMETERS
o $finfo - Fileinfo resource returned by finfo_open(3). o $file_name - Name of a file to be checked. o $options - One or disjunction of more Fileinfo constants. o $context - For a description of contexts, refer to "Stream Functions". RETURN VALUES
Returns a textual description of the contents of the $file_name argument, or FALSE if an error occurred. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A finfo_file(3) example <?php $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE); // return mime type ala mimetype extension foreach (glob("*") as $filename) { echo finfo_file($finfo, $filename) . " "; } finfo_close($finfo); ?> The above example will output something similar to: text/html image/gif application/vnd.ms-excel SEE ALSO
finfo_buffer(3). PHP Documentation Group FINFO_FILE(3)
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