Excel on the Command Line

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Abstract
Perl 'one-liners' are a great way to quickly search and manipulate data without writing a full blown script, but they only work if your data is in plain text. This talk will show how to extend the 'one-liner' concept to process Microsoft Excel documents just as easily as a text file.

The tools and sample code mentioned in the presentation can be downloaded from http://perl.jonallen.info/projects/xlstools.