Comments on: parsing excel files in ruby – the parseexcel gem

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:34:30 +0000

updated to exclude nil rows and cells

wb = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.parse(file)
rows = wb.worksheet(0).map() {|r| r unless r.nil?}.compact
grid = rows.map() {|r| r.map() {|c| c.to_s(‘latin1′) unless c.nil?}.compact rescue nil}

By: Gruff

Gruff — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:11:58 +0000

Oh… one correction: Excel 2007 does let you save as Excel 5.0/95 … so it’s okay.

By: Gruff

Gruff — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:06:45 +0000

Thanks Larry, I was having the same problem with nil rows, but I saved as excel95 format and it solved the problem!

Gruff

By: LarryK

LarryK — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:45:40 +0000

Unfortunately, the parseexcel gem does not seem to have been updated for a couple of years. (As of October, 2009.) And the latest version only reads Excel 95.

But Excel 2007 no longer offers the option of writing a file into Excel 95 format. So the you’ll run into more and more copies of Excel that can’t create an Excel file for this parser. Sigh…

Note, source git repo for the project is http://scm.ywesee.com/?p=parseexcel;a=summary

By: sudhi

sudhi — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:21:43 +0000

Where is the gem? parseexcel

By: Nirvana

Nirvana — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:10:55 +0000

How to loop through the worksheets if there is more than one? An example will work best for me.

By: naveen

naveen — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:17:59 +0000

hai can u guve the code to write the information of gmail into excel format

By: naveen

naveen — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:45:28 +0000

HI can any get me the code in ruby ,where i need to write my gami ifo into excel sheet format

By: Sri

Sri — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:48:23 +0000

BTW, above bug is filed int he bug tracking system. Try to go there from the project page:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/spreadsheet

By: Sri

Sri — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:41:03 +0000

I was able to make the Chad’s example. Here is what I have in my file:
———
require “parseexcel”

puts “Hello World”
wb = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.parse(“C:/Apps/AppsData/workspace/requestcentral/public/downloads/TravelReportUploadTemplate_Test.xls”)
ws = wb.worksheet(0)
rows = ws.map() { |r| r }.compact
grid = rows.map() { |r| r.map() { |c| c.to_s(‘latin1′)}.compact rescue nil }
grid.each do |g|
p g
end

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The code is supposed to print all the rows to the console. It tries but it prints ‘nil’ for most of the rows, even though it’s not nil in the actual file.

Bottom line, this code is not ready guys like they mentioned at the source where Chad got it from (Chad gave the link to source in his comment).

I wish someone could make the basic stripping work.

-Sri