On 10/18/2010 5:31 PM, JohnS wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:13 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I'm getting tired of converting spreadsheets that someone else updates
>> to csv so my perl scripts can push the data into a mysql database. Is
>> there a better way? I haven't had much luck with
>> perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel (and find it odd that yum prefers the .32
>> version from epel over .57 from rpmforge anyway). Is the current CPAN
>> version better? Or the equivalent java tools? Or maybe a scripted
>> OpenOffice conversion would be possible.
>>
>> Needs to deal with both xls and xlsx formats, the odd characters that
>> are confused with quotes even after csv conversion, numbers with $'s and
>> commas embedded, excel's date formatting nonsense, etc.
> ---
> I think you are out of luck on that. .Net has a whole world of Office
> Goodies what a shame...
> Extract the CSV Data then do a insert into MySQL. Is that how you do it
> now?
Yes, someone emails an xls or xlsx, I do a 'save as' csv, but it's not a
straight insert after that. I read it into perl and do some checking
and conversions, depending on the data involved, then an insert or
update. I expected the db to be the authoritative copy but I keep
getting batches of wholesale modifications to merge in so I'd like to
automate it a little more completely.
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Les Mikesell
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