On 10/20/2010 3:49 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote:
> On 10/19/2010 09:13 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> ...
>> 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?
> ...
>> 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.
>
> Looking at the changelog, version .57 of perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel
> fixes some of the above issues. Not clear from the above whether you
> have tried it or not. The developers would probably be very interested
> in any examples that break the parser.
I just went as far as seeing it wouldn't take .xlsx (2007+ default
format). It does look like the rpmforge .57 version will accept the
.xls format file, although I think it seems slower than loading excel
and doing a 'save as' to get the csv. For numbers, cell->unformatted()
would give a real number instead of having to yank the commas out of the
csv or $cell->value() versions, but dates don't look like what sql wants
either way.
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Les Mikesell
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