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    Mar 12, 2010, 08:24 AM
    Need to convert .XLS, and .MDB data to ASCII in Linux
    My customers send me data in .XLS and .MDB formatted files. Spreadsheet data always consists of a single tab. Access .MDB data always consists of less than 100 fields. All the fields are numbers, text, or dates.

    My computer runs Linux. I code in Perl 5.8.8. OS is Linux (Centos 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5, but what I code typically runs anywhere Red Hat, SUSE, or other major distros.)

    I am looking for a free (or very cheap) utility that will convert the data to tab-delimited ASCII files.

    The solution MUST be able to be called from Linux shell scripts so a command line interface would be ideal. An interactive GUI application will NOT work for me.
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    Mar 12, 2010, 09:33 AM
    Excel can save to delimited file as standard and access can export to the same.
    I would ask you customers to send the information in this format.

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