[CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

Mon Oct 18 22:33:46 UTC 2010
Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com>

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
>I'm getting tired of converting spreadsheets that someone else updates 
>to csv so my perl scripts can push the data into a mysql database.  Is 
>there a better way?  I haven't had much luck with 
>perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel (and find it odd that yum prefers the .32 
>version from epel over .57 from rpmforge anyway).  Is the current CPAN 
>version better?  Or the equivalent java tools?  Or maybe a scripted 
>OpenOffice conversion would be possible.
>
>Needs to deal with both xls and xlsx formats, the odd characters that 
>are confused with quotes even after csv conversion, numbers with $'s and 
>commas embedded, excel's date formatting nonsense, etc.

I don't do much perl these days, having switched to python for
most of my stuff.

There is at least one python package for this:

	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd

A google search on ``python excel reader'' came up with quite a
few hits.

Of course there are easy python dbi interfaces to mysql, postgresql, and
other SQL databases as well.

Bill
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