11-20-2009
Could you clarify if the sheet is saved as csv or xls.
1. if csv then you have solutions in earlier post by dennis.jacob
2. if xls
a. then you could use perl,python etc to extract data for perl use libraries like use Spreadsheet::Read; ... to read the content.
b. try antiexcel
antiexcel | Get antiexcel at SourceForge.net or similar to extract data ..
Let us know which one worked for you.
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py_xls2csv
py_xls2csv(1) General Commands Manual py_xls2csv(1)
NAME
py_xls2csv - convert an Excel xls file to a comma separated value csv file
SYNOPSIS
py_xls2csv input-file
DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
py_xls2csv takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a comma separated value csv file. Output is sent to stdout.
Additional utility scripts can be found in the tools/ directory.
OPTIONS
This program does not take any command line options.
AUTHOR
pyexcelerator and py_xls2csv were written by Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>.
This manual page was written by Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted
to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published
by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
SEE-ALSO
pyexcelerator(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2html(1)
October 12, 2006 py_xls2csv(1)