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[Phil Powell]

That would require that I use Perl, which I have not done so in several
years.  In short, I know ZERO Perl! :(

Phil
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Preston-Campbell" <brian at preston-campbell.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP Excel Parser


Why apologize?  Some things can simply be accomplished in Perl more easily
than PHP, for those of us that have used both. -- Puts on flameproof
overalls
--  Not to say that I don't believe in the future of PHP,  but given the
urgency of the situation, the fastest solution gets the job done.

On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:29 am, David Mintz wrote:
> I know your subject line says PHP, but you could <gasp /> use Perl, DBI,
> DBI::Excel and DBI::mysql. I can show you a sample if you're interested.
> Sorry if this is too sacrilegious (-:
>
> --David
>
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Brian Pang wrote:
> > save it as a comma-separated text file and use phpMyAdmin to import it
> >
> > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> > >
> > >
> > > What would one best recommend to parse an existing Excel spreadsheet
> >
> > (was done in Excel 97 or 2000 not sure to be honest)?  I am looking for
> > the most practical way of parsing an existing spreadsheet to place
> > contents into a mySQL db.
> >
> > > Thanx, Phil
>
> ---
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>
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