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Re: Perl or Applescript w/ Excel


  • Subject: Re: Perl or Applescript w/ Excel
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:47:16 -0600

At 11:44 -0700 8/14/02, Pia Zador wrote:
>I am about to write a script that takes a bunch of tab-deliminated text
>files, extracts certain numeric data, performs simple arithmetic on the
>extracted data, and outputs the new data to a workbook in Excel.

Tab delimited text is almost native to Excel.

Have a long look at Microbesoft Visual Basic for Applications - VBA - which is the native scripting language for Excel. It's no harder to learn than AppleScript and it can open the files directly into Excel.

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Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, but not thoroughly, thought through.
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