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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl syntax for formatting columns and text Post 302892863 by sagar_1986 on Saturday 15th of March 2014 06:28:56 AM
Old 03-15-2014
Perl syntax for formatting columns and text
Dear all,

Pzl let me know what is the syntax for converting the columns format to text as i have lots of values for
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eg. 001,0235,0002215,0012596,
but when i put these values in xls sheet the values are automatically converted to
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1,235 etc.
and one more question i have is how to call values from shell script into perl script
eg.
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if I want to add border and any formatting from cell A1 to A23 and this 23 value is stored/grepped in shell script then how to call it in abc.pl script.
Thanks in advance
 

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py_xls2txt

py_xls2txt(1)						      General Commands Manual						     py_xls2txt(1)

NAME

       py_xls2txt - convert an Excel xls file to a plain text file

SYNOPSIS

       py_xls2txt  input-file

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       py_xls2txt takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a plain text 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_xls2txt 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
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SEE-ALSO
       pyexcelerator(1), py_xls2csv(1), py_xls2html(1)

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