Re: Reading from Excel Files

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:22:12 -0700

Never got into AppleScript.  That's not a bad idea, though.

On Oct 23, 2006, at 2:37 PM, jbv wrote:

Ray ,

If you're on Mac, I've you tried some applescript to convert all
your excel files to tab/return test files ?

JB

Greetings, I'm using "open file myPath for binary read" to read an Excel file and I'm getting lots of garbage characters since I believe it's Microsoft's proprietary binary format.  If I save the Excel file as a Text (Tab Delimited) file I can read from it fine.  The problem is I have about 500 of these file.  To manually convert all of them would be extremely time consuming.
Any suggestions on reading an Excel file and filtering out all the garbage characters?
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