01-31-2012
Raw Microsoft Excel format is unsuitable for processing in any text-based computer language. You can use Excel to export the data with a pipe delimiter. If you have already exported the data in some text file format, please post a representative sample (blotting anything confidential with X's).
(Posts crossed - I had not seen post #3. Was that format written by Microsoft Excel? If so, how?)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
pyexcelerator
PYEXCELERATOR(1) General Commands Manual PYEXCELERATOR(1)
NAME
pyexcelerator - a module for reading/writing Excel spreadsheet files
SYNOPSIS
pyexcelerator
DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
pyExcelerator is a Python module that can generate Excel 97/2000/XP/2003 spreadsheet files. It can also extract data from these files. It
supports Unicode in Excel files, and can use a variety of formatting features and printing options. It can dump Excel and OLE2 compound
files.
Numerous examples of usage can be found in the examples/ directory.
Additions utility scripts can be found in the tools/ directory.
OPTIONS
This program does not take any command line options.
AUTHOR
pyexcelerator was 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
py_xls2csv(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2html(1)
October 12, 2006 PYEXCELERATOR(1)