You might also want to take a look at this article (found through a google search): Cultured Perl: Reading and writing Excel files with Perl http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pexcel/ On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > Cheryl Homiak asked for a way to create time reports in the form of > Excel spreadsheets. gnumeric is a free tool that can read and write > Excel format files. It has a GUI, but I hoped for a CORBA or command > line interface for the simple translation task. Anyway, I posted a > question on the gnumeric list and got this reply from > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <dm@zensunni.demon.nl>: > > > Gnumeric currently isn't the right tool for that job (but see > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2002-February/msg00000.html). > > > > In the short run, you're probably better off using catdoc's "xls2csv" and a > > small perl script using the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module to do csv -> xls. > > Following up on the latter, I suggest installing these Debian > packages: > > catdoc > libtext-csv-perl > libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl > > The last package includes the file > /usr/share/doc/libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl/examples/csv2xls.pl > > which converts a CSV file to XLS. Unfortunately it's not installed > with execute permissions. I suggest copying it to a directory in your > PATH using something like this: > > cp /usr/share/doc/libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl/examples/csv2xls.pl /usr/local/bin/csv2xls > chmod +x /usr/local/bin/csv2xls > > This should let you convert their timesheet to a CSV file which you > can fill out with a regular text editor, then back to an XLS file > which you can provide as a binary attachment. You should be able to > use gnupg to create a detached signature of the XLS file. > > - Jim Van Zandt > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html