in reply to *log to *.xls

Up until Excel 2007, Excel had a limit of 65,536 rows (and 256 columns) for a spreadsheet. Excel 2007 raised this limit to 1,048,576 rows (and 16,384 columns).

The column limit is unlikely to be problematic, but log files can easily contain millions of lines.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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Re^2: *log to *.xls
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Dec 19, 2012 at 18:41 UTC
    "Excel 2007 raised this limit to 1,048,576 rows (and 16,384 columns)"

    Yes, shure. But who likes to have a spreadsheet with 1,048,576 rows ;-)

    I'm just wondering about how i would do something like this.

    Even splitting such a large log by timestamp into different worksheets is no fun.

    But what else? Perhaps putting the whole stuff into a database and write some stored procedures that do the dirty mangle job(s) a.s.o...?

    Best regards, Karl

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