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XLS2csv a simple and intuitive XLS/XLSX-to-CSV converter for Mac. It handles.xls/.xlsx files from Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, Open Offices Excel and converts them to.csv text file format. This Mac XLS2csv converter app can intelligently recognize large XLS/XLSX files as well as a group of XLS/XLSX files and batch convert them to CSV format quickly. Users are allowed to drag-and-drop a file or directory to the interface of XLS2csv, and preview the loaded Excel spreadsheets before conversion. Plus, you can customize delimiters in the CSV as comma, semicolon, space, tab, etc.
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Features. Convert.xls to.csv on Mac. Support drag-and-drop files.
Convert all with one click. Support batch conversion. Built for Mac users only. Fool-style operation.
Support preview before conversion. Show up generated file in finder after conversion. After-sale services. Intuitive interface and fast conversion speed. No ads and plug-ins. The free trial version will stop working after 30 days.
Converting Microsoft Excel sheet (XLS file) to a Comma Separated file (CSV) is relatively very easy while using an Office product, but it could be a tedious task for programmers to do it in command line. The situation may arrive when you have a XLS file and you need to fill the database from it after formatting the data. Converting the XLS to CSV is the ideal way here as the CSV is the format that can easily be manipulated in any language, be it Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python or Java.
In this post, we will see the best ways to convert the XLS file to CSV and we will also discuss the pro and cons of using these methods. Catdoc (in C) The first command line tool we are going to talk about is.
The tool is written in C by V.B. 1.1 How to install it. Xls2csv -x 'PathofYourXLSFile' -s cp1252 -d 8859- 1 'PathofYourCSVFile' Note the option “ -s” and “ -d” (stands for source and destination). These options are used to specify which character encoding is used in the source file and what would be the character encoding for the destination file. Here I have used cpl1252 which is Microsoft character encoding and 8859-1 which is used for Western European character encoding. You can use what other options are available by using the help command.
Xls2csv -help 1.3 Pros and Cons: Pros: Straight forward installation Cons: No selective conversion in multiple sheet scenario, it coverts all the sheets present in the xls file (one workaround would be to explicitly specify a footer in each sheet and then use option -b in the command), problems with few European characters, problem with date fields (the date fields are messed up big times), messes with quotes. Xls2csv (in Perl) The second tool we are going to talk about is a Perl script written by Ken Prows in Perl. 2.1 How to install it: Download the script. Gunzip and tar it like we did in previous section and go the extracted directory and use the following commands to install it. Locale::Recode Unicode::Map Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Text::CSVXS While installing xls2csv, it will give error that the mentioned perl modules have not been installed. It will ask you to download the modules. Download and install these modules when asked.
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All these module installation requires root privileges. If you do not have root access, then you should follow the instruction given to install a Perl module. 2.2 How to use it: The following command can be used to convert Microsoft excel to csv.