Decimating Excel files

[Paddy]

On Feb 3, 7:43 pm, gonzlobo <gonzl... at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, I don't want to destroy them (funny how the word 'decimate' has
> changed definition over the years) :).
>
> We have a data acquisition program that saves its output to Excel's
> .xls format. Unfortunately, the programmer was too stupid to write
> files the average user can read.
>
> I'd like some advice on how to go about:
> 1. Reading a large Excel file and chop it into many Excel files (with
> only 65535 lines per file)
> or
> 2. Decimate an Excel file & write... say every other line (user
> selectable)... to a new file.
>
> I'm pretty experienced at reading and writing simple text files, but
> this is my first foray into using COM. I would imagine either choice 1
> or 2 is pretty simple once I can get the file open.
>
> Thanks in advance.

I got a fair amount of hits for xls-to-csv in Google..

- Paddy.
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