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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Dealing with XLS file with multiple tabs Post 302898274 by himanshu sood on Monday 21st of April 2014 06:11:35 AM
Old 04-21-2014
Dealing with XLS file with multiple tabs

Hey Guys ,

Recently working on a requirement , i had to deal with XLS file with multiple tabs and the requirement was as below :

1. Convert one XLS file with multiple tabs to multiple CSV files.
-- As i was working on MAC , so it was quite easy through APPLESCRIPT to deal with this.But during this , i read lots of forum and learnt that UNIX shell scripting do not have any utility or solution for this.Is this really true?bcaz i everywhere found ppl recommending PERL or other stuff .

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Real Problem.
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2. Once Files are converted to CSV , we have to rename all CSV files with names as in different tab from XLS i.e first CSV should be named as the first tab in that XLS and so on .

Is there anyway in scripting to capture those tab names from XLS?

and if not , what alternative i should try to make this happen ?

I am eagerly looking forward for your replies.

Cheers!!!
Himanshu Sood
 

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XmTabListReplacePositions(library call) 								   XmTabListReplacePositions(library call)

NAME
XmTabListReplacePositions -- A convenience function that creates a new tab list with replacement tabs SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Xm.h> XmTabList XmTabListReplacePositions( XmTabList oldlist, Cardinal *position_list, XmTab *tabs, Cardinal tab_count); DESCRIPTION
XmTabListReplacePositions creates a new tab list that contains the contents of oldlist, but with the tabs at the positions in position_list replaced with copies of the corresponding tabs in tabs. A warning message is displayed if a specified position is invalid; for example, if the value is a number greater than the number of tabs in the tab list. This function deallocates the original tab list after extracting the required information. It is the caller's responsibility to free the tabs in tabs by using the XmTabFree function. oldlist Specifies the tab list. The function deallocates the tab list after extracting the required information. position_list Specifies an array of positions of the tabs to be replaced. The position of the first tab is 0 (zero), the position of the second tab is 1, and so on. tabs Specifies an array of the replacement tabs. tab_count Specifies the number of elements in position_list and tabs. RETURN
If tabs, oldlist, or position_list is NULL, or tab_count is 0 (zero), returns oldlist. Otherwise, this function returns the new tab list. The function allocates space to hold the returned tab list. The application is responsible for managing the allocated space. The applica- tion can recover the allocated space by calling XmTabListFree. RELATED
XmTabList(3). XmTabListReplacePositions(library call)
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