Hi Perl Monks,

I am a new Perl user and am trying to save a Excel file as a tab delimeted text file. When I run the following script it creates a .csv or .txt file (depending on the output file name), but it is still in a binary format. 

                                                                      
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#should save C:\\work\\perl_WinOle\\sym_text_testdoc.xls as
#       a text or csv formatted document.
#    creates a file with .txt or csv extension, but
#       document is not a tab or comma delimeted text file.

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use Win32;
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';
#$file = "C:\\work\\perl_WinOle\\test.csv";
$OutFile = "C:\\work\\perl_WinOle\\sym_text_testdoc.txt";
my $Excel = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');
my $xl = Win32::OLE::Const->Load($Excel);
$Excel->{'Visible'} = 1;         # if you want to see what's going on

my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open( "C:\\work\\perl_WinOle\\sym_text_t
+estdoc.xls" );

$Book->Activate();
$Book->SaveAs($OutFile);
$Book->Close;

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I found this snippet of code that saves a Word document as a text file: $document->SaveAs($txt, wdFormatText);

I assume that Excel would be somthing like: $book->SaveAs($txt, excelFormatText); excelFormatText probably should be something different. Does anyone know how to save an Excel file as a text delimeted text file?

Sorry about the format of my message, my question I entered does have spaces and lines for clarity, don't know why they don't exist in the examle posted message

Thanks, Steveb94553

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In reply to Saving Excel file in Tab delimeted text or .csv by steveb94553

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