George,
Mike is right - a Perl script can make the conversion easy and highly
automated. However, I like to use TAB-delimited output to avoid the
occasional messy situation when valid data contains commas or
quotes. Write the program or paragraph such that it generates a text
file and then shells to the Perl program to do the conversion.
ActiveState's Perl for Windows does have the
"Spreadsheet::WriteExcel" and "Text::CSV" modules available.
Let me know if you want some samples to hack.
Kent
At 01:02 PM 1/13/2006, Michael Doyle wrote:
On UNIX, use Perl. Specifically, use the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and
Text::CSV modules. My csv2xls.pl script is only about 47 lines long.
The Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module was utter garbage a few years ago,
but thanks to the efforts of OpenOffice.org and the obvious benefits of
open source software, the module has improved by leaps and bounds.
On Windows, I can only presume that Visual Basic can generate Excel
spreadsheets.
Mike Doyle
Unix Developer / Administrator
AMO Recoveries
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 14:45 -0500, George Gallen wrote:
> Our UV system creates an ASCII .csv file for another
> system to import on a daily basis. The 3rd party software
> after a recent upgrade now only imports .xls files.
>
> Is there an easy way to "automate" Excel to load the .csv,
> then save as .xls?
>
> Or how much more difficult is it to create the .xls instead of
> a .csv?
>
> I thought about getting one of those programs that records
> mouse clicks, and create a macro of the conversion (since the
> filename is the same each day), but wonder if there was
> something we could do in a batch file and run every day under
> the Windows scheduler.
>
> George
>
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