Reading data from excel file on UNIX platform

Posted by nilesh_pharate on 02-Jan-2016 05:28

Anyone have idea how to read excel file on unix platform from progress code? On windows we can use COM objects to read excel and I used same. Now my application is deployed on unix and I need to read excel file for same. I have little idea about way in which we can read it on UNIX,

Posted by Alon Blich on 02-Jan-2016 06:55

you could use openoffice/libreoffice to convert an excel to a csv file -

soffice --headless --convert-to csv $filename --outdir $outdir

i am planning to add an import procedure to the docxfactory project but i've been a little busy with another side project.

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Posted by Alon Blich on 02-Jan-2016 06:55

you could use openoffice/libreoffice to convert an excel to a csv file -

soffice --headless --convert-to csv $filename --outdir $outdir

i am planning to add an import procedure to the docxfactory project but i've been a little busy with another side project.

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