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How to generate and update ODF spreadsheets without OpenOffice

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What if your boss demands a new version of a spreadsheet, with fresh data, every day? Should you enter them manually? No, if your data have a fixed structure and the spreadsheet can be in OpenDocument format (ODF)! If that's the case, it only takes a bit of shell and Perl scripting to generate automatically a new spreadsheet whenever the raw data change.

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Sander_Marechal ·
This script too will generate an ODF file with an incorrect mimetype. Just like the article from last week. Fixing this is just one line extra: http://www.jejik.com/articles/2010/03/how_to_correctly_creat...

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