export from filepro to an excel file

[Cole, Ken (ABRC)]

Dennis,

If there is a version of Perl for AIX, the simplest way is to export to
CSV, write a Perl script to convert the CSV to an actual xls file.
Using the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel Perl module you can create an actual
xls workbook with multiple work sheets, fully formatted columns, add
formula, column widths, etc.

We have a Perl script we call csv2xls and we run it from a filePro
system command in say @wgt or @done processing.  It takes 3 parameters,
the csv file name, a format file name and the output file name.  The
format file tells the program how to format each column in the csv file
for excel.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
> Of Dennis Malen
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2006 8:12 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: export from filepro to an excel file
>
> I know this topic has been discussed before.
>
> We currently create an export file with:
>
> export multi exp=/tmp/bouncchk.xls r=1 f=1
>
> Even though we we add the extension ".xls" the file that is
> created is really SYLK (Symbolic Link).
>
> We use multi as opposed to comma delimited because if we are
> transferring a social security number that has a leading "0"
> it chops it off. That does not happen with multi. We FTP the
> file to our server and open the file in excel.
>
> The only problem we have with multi and comma delimited is
> that if we are transferring a number such as "37.50" excel
> picks up the number as "37.5".
> If we send "37.00" excel shows it as "37".
>
> We know that we can go into excel after the file is created
> and reformat the column as a decimal. Time is money and we
> don't want to have to do this.
>
> Does anyone know of any way to overcome this problem.
>
> We are on filePro 4.8 (going to 5.0 shortly) and on IBM AIX Unix.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dennis Malen
> 516.479.5912
>
>
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