From: El Gato <wmwilson01@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T00:28:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Does parseexcel work on OS X?

unknown wrote:
> Anyone using parseexcel on a PowerPC Mac? Any tips as to how to get
> this working? Is it possible that I have an issue with big endian vs
> little endian data? When I dump the contents of the spreadsheet with
> puts, I see nornal-looking ASCII strings that I'm expecting to find.
> 
> I'm getting this when trying to read a spreadsheet I download with curl
> & am attempting to extract data from:
> 
> Errno::EINVAL: Invalid argument - ��ࡱ�
> 
> method initialize  in olestorage.rb at line 107
> method initialize  in olestorage.rb at line 107
> method parse  in parser.rb at line 172
> method parse  in parseexcel.rb at line 10
> at top level  in myScript.rb at line 40
> 
> Thanks!

I saw the same thing on Solaris/Sparc.  The size limitations of the 
library were a problem for me anyways, so I just used Perl to create the 
spreadsheet.  Sorry, I know that's not terribly helpful -- just wanted 
to let you know that you're not going crazy.

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