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Ved
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Hi All,

I have a requirement wherein I need to read data directly from an Excel sheet,then load it into a HOLD file, and then proceed with my reporting part.

There are two challenges here:
1. Its completely automated, so I cannot manually go and open the excel sheet, and save it back as CSV in the required directory.

2. The application that wil load the data into the file, would only do so in Excel file, not into a flat file, or a CSV.

I am unable to proceed under the given circumstances. Is there anything that could be done programmatically to either read directly from the excel (I am not sure if that is possible without some plug-in), or convert the file into a CSV file, so that work on it from there.

Thanks in Advance,
Ved


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FrankDutch
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Hi Ved

if you would use the "search" button you should find several issues on this.

for example this one

The main issue is that your system can post that excel file on the same place, so you can us it.

I wonder however if that system is not able to post it as a flat file. I would ask your technicians for it. That would be much easier than the odbc solution offered above.




Frank
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would only do so in Excel file,


Ved, This seems to be very strange,

Your platform is UNIX, based on your profile.

UNIX and EXCEL are not compatible. Why are you getting the data in that format?

I think we need a little more detail to be able to help.
 
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GinnyJakes
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We have the same problem and we told our developers that if they want something automatic, they need to put the spreadsheet into SQL Server. While we do have a Windows subserver, we didn't want everyone having the ability to store spreadsheets there for access via ODBC.


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PBrightwell
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If you are really working on a UNIX box, then the data must either reside somewhere on a windows server or be transferred to the UNIX by FTP. In either case, you should be able to issue a UNIX command in your program to copy the file. This may not work depending on which version of Excel creates the file and if there are any incompatable features between .xls and .csv
-UNIX cp file1.xls file2.csv


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