This is the dev repo for: http://search.cpan.org/~ken/xls2csv-1.07/script/xls2csv
I have added the script/excel2csv script to this repo. It does not exist in the CPAN version.
The improvements of excel2csv are:
- supports xlsx files
- handles character encodings much better
- the options make more sense
By default, the CSV output goes to STDOUT:
excel2csv --file file.xlsx > file.csv
You can also save to a file directly:
excel2csv --file file.xlsx --output file.csv
Or even write to STDERR:
excel2csv --file file.xlsx --output STDERR
By default, the CSV file will be in the UTF-8 encoding. You can change the encoding:
excel2csv --file file.xlsx --output_encoding CP1252 --output file_cp1252.csv
It can also autmatically trim whitespace from around all cell values:
excel2csv --file file.xlsx --trim
Use the --sheet option to read from a sheet/tab other than the first one. The following will pull from sheet 2:
excel2csv --file file.xlsx --sheet 2
You do not have to pass the --file and --output option keys. The first non-keyed option will be used as the filename, and the second non-keyed option will be the output. Other keyed options can still be passed in:
excel2csv file.xlsx file.csv --trim