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# 1  
Old 12-17-2014
Reading specific range of columns in an Excel file
Hi All,

I want to read an excel file.

PFA excel, I want to read the cloumn from A to G and the V to AH
starting from Row number 3.

Please help me on this.
Worksheettest.zip (10.5 KB) 
# 2  
Old 12-17-2014
Hello Abhisrajput,

Following may help you in same.
Code:
awk '{$8=$9=$10=$11=$12=$13=$14=$15=$16=$17=$18=$19=$20=$21=""} 1' Input_file

Thanks,
R. Singh
# 3  
Old 12-17-2014
That can't be done on binary files with normal text utilities. Save as e.g. .csv formatted text file to enable that.
There may be perl modules that can solve your problem.
# 4  
Old 12-17-2014
Sometimes apps save csv files with an .xls suffix, so the associate to excel. Otherwise, to batch process them, you need to write in PERL, VB or get them into csv or txt form: How to convert excel file to csv file or text file?
# 5  
Old 12-18-2014
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
open my $fh, '<', 'CF_Resourcing' or die "Can't open file: $!\n";
while (<$fh>) {
    my @fields = split(/\t/);
    print "@fields[0,1,3,4,5,6,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33]\n";
}

Last edited by Franklin52; 12-30-2014 at 07:59 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 6  
Old 12-18-2014
Just filter rows and columns after the "for each row/column".
# 7  
Old 12-22-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by DGPickett
Just filter rows and columns after the "for each row/column".
Can you please help me with that. I am very new into Perl.
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