Having an issue uploading csv file to my parse app - ios

I’m having an issue uploading my the attached csv file to my parse app. It says :
line 22515, column 0: wrong number of fields in line
for every upload I do. Including when I upload a slightly smaller csv file (which ironically doesn't have a line 22515 in it).
Any tips/help?

I think 22k is the max excel rows limit in old excel versions I believe till 2010, maybe that has something to do with this...

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xlsx to plist in Spanish - accented characters being lost

I have been using "Plist Converter" to get my data from csv files (excel spreadsheets saved as csv files) into plists up to now and have never had any issues with it.
However, I am currently working on an app where the data I need to convert is in Spanish.
The conversion obviously still works but I lose all of the accented characters during the process. It looks like maybe some are just lost, some are changed to other accents/characters, and the majority are replaced with an upside down question mark that does not appear on the screen but I can see it in the source code.
Anyone help me get around this with plist converter, or recommend another utility?
iMac, Excel for mac, plist converter, xcode... that is what I'm using.
Thanks
Look at libxls on SouceForge - it comes with a utility to take a .xls file and create a .csv one that you can further process using command line tools. But it has no support for .xlsx.

how to convert xls to csv using IOS library?

I need to read xls files in my IOS app. First of all, I want to convert xls files to csv format files, then my app parse csv files, but I can't find any ios library to convert xls to csv, please help me
If you have a .xls file, you can use the open source DHlibxls library to read the file into your app. This is an ObjectiveC framework that wraps a C-based library. The library is quite mature.
ios or any objecive-framework doesn't provide any thing for accesseing Microsoft's xls :(
To convert-xls to/fro csv is itself a project in it!!!
On top of this, there are different format of xls, now xlsx files. And writing a xls and reading it back in proper way is tooooo-cumbursome task to accomplish. However we have managed to read it but it is not 100% efficient :(
I guess in near future you may want to move to xlsx file then your task will be a lot more difficult. You can check yourself, change the file name extension to .zip and unzip you will see many files, one having row numbers, another columns, third with links, fourth with contents and so on. Mapping and getting in correct form in not impossible but needs a lot of work.
There can be many other ways to do, I can suggest to use java api to do, or even save you xls to csv directory from excel, then your work will be easy.

Reading Excel files with roo /rails

I am using the rails gem called roo to read and parse uploaded Excel and CSV files.
I understand that in roo, the way it reads an Excel file is Excel.new("myfilename"). I am facing issue because I have to read the file uploaded with form helper (upload helper), temp file. I am saving the temp file before reading it with roo/Excel.
Though I am uplaoding good excel files, I am getting
the file is not an Excel/xlsx
error.
Is there a way to directly read from Uploaded IO?
Can you guys tell me what am I doing wrong here?
Thanks!
If you are developing on a Windows box, when you open files, you have to add a 'b' (binary) to the file mode, i.e:
File.open("spreadsheet.xls","rb")
for read only, binary.
Not sure if that's your problem, but I faced a similar problem and that was the solution.
good luck
I am not familiar with roo, but I have used http://rubygems.org/gems/parseexcel
workbook = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.parse("#{Dir.getwd}/public/excel/foo.xls")

Export data to XLS (not via CSV) on iOS

I need to export some data to an .XLS file, pdf, and print.
I already tried the simple solution: exporting it to .CSV with CHCSVWriter. It works for printing and saving it to pdf (I open the CSV in a UIWebView and get the PDF or print from there). However, to use the CSV to be open in excel has two main problems:
1 - First, as the name says, in the CSV the values are separated by commas, and in some versions of Excel, it requires the user to separate 'manually' in cells.
2 - I have hebrew characters, and I already tried all the string encodings, and can't have both hebrew and latin characters.
So, after giving up after days of trying to use CSV to solve the issues above, I gave up. How can I export my data to XLS?
The LibXL library provides this functionality for both xls and xlsx formats. There is no iOS version, but people say the iOS version is coming. You may want to contact LibXL support to confirm this.
EDIT:
The iOS version is available now.
This article explains how to programmatically create an Excel (.xls) file without using any external library. It just opens a file stream and it writes XML contents straight to it.
It is written in C#, but the core information coming out of it is the XML formatting used to create nodes and fill attributes for corresponding cell values and formatting.
Please consider I have not tried this myself, I found it while doing a search. Please feel free to ask if some C# bits are not clear. HTH

Programmatically load CSV file into Excel Worksheet (Delphi 7)

I have a large amount of data to insert into an worksheet of an existing Excel workbook. The Excel workbook will have other worksheets containing calculations and a pivot tables. The data may have as many as 60,000 rows and more than 30 columns. This solution must work for both Excel 2003 and Excel 2007.
Using the Excel OLE object is way too slow so we are attempting to load the data from a CSV file. We have come up with a method to load the data by placing the data onto the clipboard and then pasting it into the worksheet. I feel this is a quite a kludge. Is there another way to programmatically load a CSV file into a worksheet? Or perhaps a different solution altogether?
Update: We got slammed with another task before we could fully investigate the answers. We should be able to get back to this in a couple of weeks. I'll be sure to update again when we get back to this task.
Thanks for all of the answers to date!
XLSReadWrite is a component that can read and write excel files from Delphi. It's fast and it has support for Excel 2003 and 2007. You can create new excel files as well as open existing ones and add/modify them.
Also you do not need to have Excel installed to be able to use it.
See http://www.axolot.com/components/xlsrwii20.htm
Any chance you can drop the requirement for this to work with Office 2003? I would have recommended the Open XML Format SDK. It lets you bind managed code assemblies to spreadsheet documents that can handle events such as Open or Close, and read and write to cells in the document, among other things. Alternatively, you can use it to manipulate XSLX documents from an application. Quite slick, actually.
Since this won't work for you, how about writing a macro that pulls in the CSV file when the spreadsheet is loaded?
you can load the csv into listview or usin OLEDB provider to load it on DBGrid, then export it into xls file format using TMxExport component from Max Components:
Max Components
Have you tried linking the csv file directly into the worksheet.
Go to Data -> Import External Data -> Import Data
change the file type to 'Text Files'
You can then refresh the worksheet when the csv is update.
NOTE: I have not done this with the volume of data you have indicated, so YMMV
Actually there is a way that is quite fast, pretty old tech (nowdays) but is probably the fastest.
It's ADO or for earlier versions DAO (note not ADO.NET)
You can read a CSV file using ADO and the JET Engine to get the data into a ADO recordset, then an Excel Range Object has a CopyFromRecordSet method that will copy (very fast) from the ADO (or DAO) recordset.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa165427(office.10).aspx
You can try to use Tab Separated Values instead of CSV - than you just paste this into Excel :)

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