Re: [MacPerl] Parsing Excel export files

[Paul Ho <paulcho@w3com.com>]

At 09:59 AM -0500 08/11/97, James Sentman wrote:
>Not long ago someone posted a request to the evangelist asking for help in
>renaming a bunch of files based on what he had entered in an excel
>spreadsheet. I thought this would be a perfect problem to solve with
>MacPerl. He's exporting to a comma delimited file and I've set the record
>separator to a comma, but it isn't able to load the records into an array.
>I am further hindered by the fact that I cannot get Excel to run on my 8600
>here at work so I can't actually test the thing how I would like to.
>
>Does anyone have any wisdom about parseing exported files from Excel?

use Text::ParseWords

It's now part of perl 5.004_0x

Cheers,
Paul

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