If you're using CFMX, you can use the Jakarta POI API to do this.

http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hssf/

Programmatically Manipulating Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets with the Apache POI API (Java code):
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Apache/Manupulating_Excel_Spreadsheets_with_Apache_POI/


Busy ColdFusion Developers' Guide to HSSF Features
http://www.d-ross.org/index.cfm?objectid=9C65ECEC-508B-E116-6F8A9F878188D7CA

HTH,

Adrian

Daniel Elmore wrote:
Out of those 1 billion ways which one is the easiest :) Is there not a way
to do this with cffile and cfcontent, or a CFX tag? I don't care to write VB
for this.

Thanks!


-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jacob Cameron Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Convert Excel File

I've done it through CF in the past and found that it works best calling
through a DLL.

Jacob

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of John Ivanoff
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:51 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Convert Excel File

the long way would be to make the spreadsheet a datasource, read it, make it
into a string, then save it as plain text, cvs, or tsv




On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:30:56 -0600, Daniel Elmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am trying to convert XLS files to plain text, to either a CSV or
TSV. I can do this manually using excel, but I'm pretty sure
ColdFusion has a programmic way to do this.

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