Hi Monks,

I am implementing excel processing through perl/CGI. For this purpose I need to open the excel file and extract the cell values. This is done. But there is no MS Office installed on the server side. My program takes the user inputted file (Excel) and uploads to the server, opens the excel and parses the file and writes output in different formats (text, csv etc.,). As the MS Office is not installed on the server my program became sort of useless (All the above said working fine, if the server has MS office). Now what are my options? I am looking to open and parse the Excel file at the client side. I am not sure how difficult or easy this is. Any suggestions ? How to invoke the Excel at client side, using cgi/perl (The client might not have perl modules installed) which is at the server side.

Oh .. I am using Win 2000 as the server and the client can be any of the Win m/c's

Any suggestions are welcome. IT dept is reluctant to install MS Office on server

Thanks in advance,

Raj

In reply to Invoking Excel at client side through CGI/Perl by arajani

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