<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings,<BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm using "<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">open file myPath for binary read" to read an Excel file and I'm getting lots of garbage characters since I believe it's Microsoft's proprietary binary format. If I save the Excel file as a Text (Tab Delimited) file I can read from it fine. The problem is I have about 500 of these file. To manually convert all of them would be extremely time consuming.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Any suggestions on reading an Excel file and filtering out all the garbage characters?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Ray horsley</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Developer, LinkIt! Software</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>