[wplug] Automate conversion from Excel to text in Linux

Clark Slater clark at slatech.com
Wed Feb 4 15:19:46 EST 2004


I have a similar need, but slightly different.

Does anyone know of a utility that runs on Linux
that will read in a .dbf file and output a CSV
or tab delimited version?

Thanks,
Clark


On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Carl Trusiak wrote:

> A Java Plug:)
> 
> There are two ways to do this from Java one is to use POI from Jakarta 
> Apache, the other is to use the Java API from OpenOffice.  Now, I believe 
> OpenOffice may have a C api as well if you are more confotable there.
> 
> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/index.html
> http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sdk/index.html
> 
> Either one of these should get you moving in the right direction.
> 
> 
> >From: Scott Eicher <Scott.Eicher at e-profile.com>
> >Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> >To: "WPLUG Mailing List (E-mail)" <wplug at wplug.org>
> >Subject: [wplug] Automate conversion from Excel to text in Linux
> >Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:52:52 -0500
> >
> >
> >Does anyone have a script or have any suggestions on how to automate the
> >conversion of an excel spreadsheet to plain text in Linux? I'd like to
> >automate a process that we have where we use excel to convert a spreadsheet
> >to text and then transfer the text file from the M$ system to a Linux box.
> >We'd like to transfer the excel file, in binary, from the M$ system and 
> >then
> >convert it on the Linux box rather than autmating the conversion on the M$
> >side.
> >
> >Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Scott
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