search freshmeat.net there is a tool called something like xls2xml that was
derived from the star office package. I haven't tried it, but looks very
good.
--rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Lillepuu" <martin.lillepuu@mail.ee>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: converting .xls to delimited file
> William Staniewicz wrote:
> >
> > Is there any way to convert an Excel file (".xls")
> > to a delimited file? Maybe using sed?
>
> search for xls2csv on freshmeat. it works for simpler excel files but
> tends to segfault with complicated ones (with macros, etc) :(
>
> if anyone currently knows some better tool for the task, i'm all ears.
>
> for one idea, it would be really cool if somebody extracted the msoffice
> filters from eq. openoffice and modified them to standalone csv/xml
> conversion tool.
>
> --
> Martin Lillepuu | E-mail: martin.lillepuu@mail.ee | GSM: 051 56 450
>
