From: Scott Willson <scott@...>
Date: 2006-12-04T15:13:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Does parseexcel work on OS X?


On Dec 3, 2006, at 4:30 AM, has wrote:

> d.david.carter@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Anyone using parseexcel on a PowerPC Mac?
>
> Not familiar with parseexcel, but FWIW if you've a copy of Excel
> available then you could use rb-appscript to extract your data via
> Excel's AppleScript interface.
>

Works fine for reading in text data from Excel files (which is all I  
use it for). Not sure if this is just my lack of understanding, but I  
did have to write some code to parse date values correctly, and I  
couldn't read some formula-derived text values.

Scott