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[Tim Sailer]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:27:12PM -0400, Phil Powell wrote:
> What would one best recommend to parse an existing Excel spreadsheet
> (was done in Excel 97 or 2000 not sure to be honest)?  I am looking for
> the most practical way of parsing an existing spreadsheet to place
> contents into a mySQL db.

If you know a bit of perl, get the package to read xls files, and
just do a basic read and dump to csv, as other folks are talking about

Tim

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