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Old 08-16-2011
Sort Excel File
Hi,

I am new to scripting. I have a requirement
1.convert excel 2007 format to excel 2003 fromat
2.sort the excel file -( all columns in descending order).

This needs to be done progarmmatically. Please let me know what would be the possible steps that I would need to take inorder to achive this...how would the code look..and samples?

Thanks,
eva
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Old 08-16-2011
It is an excel file or a CSV file? Modifying excel files in a script is extremely difficult, while CSV is pretty easy being just text.

To use an Excel file, you'd have to code something complicated in Perl using the modules Perl has for modifying excel files.
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Old 08-16-2011
It is an Excel file and NOT csv. I guess then perl module
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