RE: Need first line of Excel Spreadsheet

2005-03-30 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
Alfred Vahau wrote: > The Spreadsheet::ParseExcel will dump all the worksheets one after the > other into one big file. Is this your observation. > The first line of the file will be the first row of worksheet 1. From > this the last column can be extracted which contains the > file name. > > If t

Re: Need first line of Excel Spreadsheet

2005-03-30 Thread Alfred Vahau
The Spreadsheet::ParseExcel will dump all the worksheets one after the other into one big file. Is this your observation. The first line of the file will be the first row of worksheet 1. From this the last column can be extracted which contains the file name. If the user still insists on the fil

RE: Need first line of Excel Spreadsheet

2005-03-30 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
David Van Ginneken wrote: > This node may help you. > > http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=379743 > > Basically you create a custom cell handler. The one I use looks > something like this. David responded but only to me, but if you need to work with Excel and only need to search

Re: Need first line of Excel Spreadsheet

2005-03-30 Thread Offer Kaye
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:04:23 -0800, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO wrote: > > Sorry for not being clear. I can find the files I want, but to open > them takes way too long. > On my test node, to open the four files and get the first line of worksheet 1 > took almo

RE: Need first line of Excel Spreadsheet

2005-03-30 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
Kevin Old wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:30:57 -0800, Wagner, David --- Senior > Programmer Analyst --- WGO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a directory which has output reports in them. The >> big problem is that they are just a bunch of letters and numbers >> like 2781424330fdac47c9

Re: Need first line of Excel Spreadsheet

2005-03-30 Thread Kevin Old
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:30:57 -0800, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a directory which has output reports in them. The big problem > is that they are just a bunch of letters and numbers like > 2781424330fdac47c916.xls. So the user w

Need first line of Excel Spreadsheet

2005-03-29 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
I have a directory which has output reports in them. The big problem is that they are just a bunch of letters and numbers like 2781424330fdac47c916.xls. So the user would like a more recognizable file name. This is to run on Solaris w/ Perl 5.8.3. I have tried the following t