Reading from Excel Files

[jbv]

Ray ,

If you're on Mac, I've you tried some applescript to convert all
your excel files to tab/return test files ?

JB

> Greetings, I'm using "open file myPath for binary read" to read an
> Excel file and I'm getting lots of garbage characters since I believe
> it's Microsoft's proprietary binary format.Ý If I save the Excel file
> as a Text (Tab Delimited) file I can read from it fine.Ý The problem
> is I have about 500 of these file.Ý To manually convert all of them
> would be extremely time consuming.
> Any suggestions on reading an Excel file and filtering out all the
> garbage characters?
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