README.md

xls2csv

xls2csv is a program which converts XLS files to CSV files. It's based on xls2csv.c of libxls.

Features

• Specify sheet by given sheet ID.
• Convert CSV in the same way as Excel's "Save as CSV".
  • Use ',' as separator.
  • No "" for string.
  • Keep data if rowspan > 1(original xls2csv.c will stop and return).

Build

• xls2csv requires libxls to be installed.

  • Install libxls

      wget https://github.com/libxls/libxls/releases/download/v1.6.2/libxls-1.6.2.tar.gz
      tar -xzvf libxls-1.6.2.tar.gz
      cd libxls-1.6.2
      ./configure
      make
      sudo make install
    

  • Add libxls lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH

    • Create a new /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libxls.conf

          sudo vi /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libxls.conf
      
          // Add path of libxls to this file
          /usr/local/libxls/lib
      

    • Update LD_LIBRARY_PATH

        sudo ldconfig
        // Check libxlsreader.so
        sudo ldconfig -p | grep libxls
      

• Build xls2csv

    git clone https://github.com/northbright/xls2csv.git
    cd xls2csv/src
    gcc -o xls2csv *.c -I/usr/local/libxls/include -L/usr/local/libxls/lib -lxlsreader
  

Usage

xls2csv [XLS file] [-s sheet ID(0-based)] [-o CSV File]

-s sheet ID. It's 0-based. Default is 0 if no sheet id specifed.
-o CSV file to output. If no CSV file is specified, it'll output CSV string to stdout.

Example:

xls2csv my.xls 
xls2csv my.xls -s 2 -o my.csv

License

• MIT License

Thanks

• Thanks powerful libxls to give it a chance that we can still operate on XLS file.