You lost me. There is nothing in post #1 in this thread that talks about converting | characters to tabs. That is much more easily done by the simple command:
What was requested was a way to convert a text file into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (presumably .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, or .xlx) format (all of which are proprietary Microsoft binary formats). I know that some versions of perl are able to do with when certain plugins are available, but converting a pipe symbol separated values file into a tab separated values file does not seem to make any progress towards the request stated in post #1 in this thread. Am I missing something?
i have a file whose data is like this::
osr_pe_assign|-120|wg000d@att.com|4|
osr_evt|-21|wg000d@att.com|4|
pe_avail|-21|wg000d@att.com|4|
osr_svt|-11|wg000d@att.com|4|
pe_mop|-13|wg000d@att.com|4|
instar_ready|-35|wg000d@att.com|4|
nsdnet_ready|-90|wg000d@att.com|4|... (6 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I have a text file containing nearly 12,000 tab delimited characters with 4000 rows. If the file size is small, excel can convert the text into coloumns. However, the file that I have is very big. Can some body help me in solving this problem?
The input file example,
... (6 Replies)
I have a text file that made using text editor in Ubuntu. However the text file is not being recognized as space or tab delimited, the formatting seems to be messed up. How can I convert the text file into tab delimited format? (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have space delimited file similar to the one as shown below.. I need to convert it as a pipe delimited, the values inside the pipe delimited file should be as highlighted...
AA ATIU2345098809 009697 005374
BB ATIU2345097809 005445 006518
CC ATIU9685098809 003215 003571
DD... (7 Replies)
I have a file which was pipe delimited, I need to make it tab delimited. I tried with sed but no use
cat file | sed 's/|//t/g'
The above command substituted "/t" not tab in the place of pipe.
Sample file:
abc|123|2012-01-30|2012-04-28|xyz
have to convert to:
abc 123... (6 Replies)
Hi How to make tab delimited file to space delimited?
in put file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
o/p file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
Use code tags, thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi
i have a problem in my job
i try to convert an excel file (xls extention) to text file (tab delimited), but no result with this comand
cat xxx.xls > xxx.txt
Do you have eny idea?
PS: sorry for my english
Thanks!! (4 Replies)
Hi All,
How can we convert pipe delimited ( or comma ) file to vertical tab (VT) delimited.
Regards
PK (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: prasson_ibm
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RUNXLRD(1) General Commands Manual RUNXLRD(1)NAME
runxlrd - extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files
SYNOPSIS
runxlrd [options] command [input-file-patterns]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the runxlrd command.
runxlrd offers a commandline interface to the Python xlrd module; it extracts data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files.
OPTIONS -h, --help
Show summary of options and exit.
-l logfilename
Contains error messages.
-v verbosity, --verbosity=verbosity
Level of information and diagnostics provided.
-p pickleable, --pickleable=pickleable
1: ensure Book object is pickleable (default); 0: don't bother.
-m mmap, --mmap=mmap
1: use mmap; 0: don't use mmap; -1: accept heuristic.
-e encoding, --encoding=encoding
Encoding override.
-f formatting, --formatting=formatting
0 (default): no fmt info 1: fmt info (all cells) 2: fmt info (margins trimmed).
-g gc, --gc=gc
0: auto gc enabled; 1: auto gc disabled, manual collect after each file; 2: no gc.
-s onesheet, --onesheet=onesheet
Restrict output to this sheet (name or index).
COMMANDS
Valid commands are
o dump
o count_records
o version
o hdr
o ov
o show
o 2rows
o 3rows
o bench
o names
o name_dump
o labels
o xfc
o hotshot
o profile
See the xlrd API documentation for the meaning of these commands.
EXAMPLES
To show the first, second and last rows of each sheet in each file, run
$ runxlrd 3rows *blah*.xls
Run
$ runxlrd -e koi8_r 3rows myfile.xls
to explicitly pass the needed codepage to xlrd, e.g. if the codepage record is missing, or if it exists but is wrong.
SEE ALSO
The xlrd API documentation, shipped in the file xlrd.html.
The xlrd website <http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm>.
AUTHOR
runxlrd was written by John Machin.
This manual page was written by Joost van Baal <joostvb+debian@uvt.nl>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
xlrd 0.6.1a4 2007-05-24 RUNXLRD(1)