Reading SLK files in Perl

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Re: Reading SLK files in Perl by displeaser (Hermit) on Aug 17, 2005 at 12:41 UTC
Hi, from this link they appear to be ascii files so opening them using normal perl conventions should work just fine. Link: http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/symblink.htm `open(SLINK, "one.slk"); while(<SLINK>){ #do something with file } close SLINK;` [download] Hope this helps. Displeaser	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Reading SLK files in Perl by newroz (Monk) on Aug 17, 2005 at 12:10 UTC
File::Spec::Link resolve the path that link points to.	[reply]
Re^2: Reading SLK files in Perl by Roger (Parson) on Aug 17, 2005 at 12:24 UTC
I don't think that's what the OP is asking for. SLK is not a symbolic link, it is called the symbolic link exchange format. It is an alternative to store Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. I don't think there is a free library currently available to handle that file format yet. The best bet is to use Win32::API and reverse engineer the dynamic link libraries supplied by Excel.	[reply]
Re^3: Reading SLK files in Perl by newroz (Monk) on Aug 17, 2005 at 12:45 UTC
I hadn't heard that format before. Thanks for that.So my previous comment useless in that case.	[reply]