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# 1  
Old 04-14-2007
text file to excel or csv
Hi,

I have a text file like

----------------------
aaa|bbb|ccc|ddd|eee
fff|gggg|hhhhhh|kkkk

--------------------

I have a script which will transfer(thourgh FTP) this text file to windows system.

But I want to covert it into excel or CSF then upload into windows system..

thanks
# 2  
Old 04-14-2007
csv? you can convert those "|" into ","
Code:
 sed  -i 's/|/,/g' file

# 3  
Old 04-14-2007
most seds do not have a -i option, so if that is your case:

Code:
tr '|' ',' < file > newfile

upload newfile
or
Code:
sed 's/|/,/g' file > newfile

upload newfile
or
Code:
perl -pi -e 's/|/,/g' file

upload file
# 4  
Old 04-15-2007
Cool..

I got it..

uploading it .csv format to window system, when i open the file it is giving desired format....

Thanks
# 5  
Old 04-15-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by srikanthus2002
Hi,

I have a text file like

----------------------
aaa|bbb|ccc|ddd|eee
fff|gggg|hhhhhh|kkkk

--------------------

I have a script which will transfer(thourgh FTP) this text file to windows system.

But I want to covert it into excel or CSF then upload into windows system..
[INDENT]
Excel can use any character as a delimiter.

Import that file, as it is, and tell Excel to use the pipe as the delimiter.
# 6  
Old 04-16-2007
Hi John,
good question,

But I have to give a file to client in excel format...( Client don't want to do import stufft as you said)

I think, this would creare your doubt...
# 7  
Old 04-16-2007
Code:
perl -pi -e 's/|/\t/g' filename

save the file with .xls extension. a tab separated file will be treated well by excel
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