Re^2: xlsmerge - Merge worksheets from different Excel files into one Workbook

Maybe you can suggest to me how I would write the description better:

This script is a raw utility that I use to merge "information" and "data" sheets from different Excel workbooks. The basic syntax is as follows:
xlsmerge -s -o results-%Y%m%d.xls info.xls:Information query_results.x
+ls:Sheet1
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Maybe, if your operating system does not execute Perl programs directly, you want to use the following line:

perl -w xlsmerge -s -o results-%Y%m%d.xls info.xls:Information query_r
+esults.xls:Sheet1
[download]

You don't tell us what you've tried and what problems you encountered, so it's hard to advise you further.

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Re^3: xlsmerge - Merge worksheets from different Excel files into one Workbook by deshdaaz (Novice) on Nov 07, 2016 at 22:07 UTC
Old thread, but wanted to share with other readers. Running command exactly as suggested created an empty results file. There is likely a bug in the script on line 24 and believe it's expecting a different format compared to what's suggested in the example by author. Solution is to NOT specify the sheet name after the semicolon. Simply run it as `perl xlsmerge.pl -s -o results-%Y%m%d.xls File1.xls File2.xls` [download] I have a different question though. Is it possible to simply change the extension to csv in the source code and run this on csv files?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: xlsmerge - Merge worksheets from different Excel files into one Workbook by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 08, 2016 at 07:55 UTC
No. This program only reads XLS files in the XLS file format. If you want to depend less on the format of your input files, I recommend using Spreadsheet::Read.	[reply]