NAME

       xls2csv - reads MS-Excel file and puts its content as comma-separated data on standard output

SYNOPSIS

       xls2csv [-xlV] [-f  format ] [-b  string ] [-s  charset ] [-d  charset ] [-q  number ] [-c  char] files

DESCRIPTION

       xls2csv reads MS-Excel spreadsheet and dumps its content as comma-separated values to stdout. Numbers are
       printed without delimiters, strings are enclosed in the double quotes. Double-quotes  inside  string  are
       doubled.

OPTIONS

       -x      print unknown Unicode chars as \xNNNN, rather than as question marks

       -l      list known charsets and exit successfully

       -cchar  cell separator char. By default - comma.

       -bstring
               sheet  break  string.  This  string  (by  default  - formfeed) would be output at the end of each
               workbook page. This string is printed after page starting at start of line, but no linefeed would
               be automatically added at the end of string. Include newline at the ent of sheet separator if you
               want it to appear on separate line by itself

       -gnumber number of decimal digits in the numbers. By default maximal double  precision  (system-dependent
                macro DBL_DIG) is used.

       -qnumber
               set  quote  mode.  In  quote  mode 0 cell contents is never quoted.  In quote mode 1 only strings
               which contain spaces, double quotes or commas are quoted.  In quote mode 2  (default)  all  cells
               with type string are quoted.  In quote mode 3 all cells are quoted.

       -dcharset`
               - specifies destination charset name. Charset file has format described in CHARACTER SETS section
               of catdoc(1) manual page. By default, current locale charset would be used  if  langinfo  support
               was enabled at the compile time.

       -scharset
               -  specifies  source  charset.  Typically, Excel files have CODE PAGE record, which denotes input
               charset, but for some reason you may wish to override it.

       -fformat
               - specifies date/time format to use for output of all Excel  date  and  time   values.   If  this
               option  is  not  specified,  format,  specified  in  the spreadsheet is used. On POSIX system any
               format, allowed by strftime(3) can be  used  as  value  of  this  option.  Under  MS-DOS  xls2csv
               implements limited set of strftime formats, namely m, d, y, Y, b, l, p, H, M, S.

       -V      outputs version number

FILES

       ${HOME}/.catdocrc,  catdoc  charset  files  and  substitution  map  files  (see catdoc(1) manual page for
       details,

SEE ALSO

       cat(1), catdoc(1), catppt(1), strings(1), utf(4), unicode(4)

AUTHOR

       V.B.Wagner <vitus@45.free.net>, based on biffview by David Rysdam