Re: converting .xls to delimited file - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From David Merrill
Subject Re: converting .xls to delimited file
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Msg-id 20010110083702.B13837@lupercalia.net
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In response to converting .xls to delimited file  (William Staniewicz <wstan@localhostnl.demon.nl>)
List pgsql-novice
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:22:46AM -0500, William Staniewicz wrote:
> Is there any way to convert an Excel file (".xls")
> to a delimited file? Maybe using sed?

You can export an excel file, from within excel, to tab delimited,
comma delimited, and many other formats. xls is a binary format, so
sed will not do the job.

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