# Does parseexcel work on OS X? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 2, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-parseexcel-work-on-os-x/78000 "2006-12-02T15:01:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-parseexcel-work-on-os-x/78000/1 "2006-12-02T15:01:21Z")
Anyone using parseexcel on a PowerPC Mac? Any tips as to how to get this working? Is it possible that I have an issue with big endian vs little endian data? When I dump the contents of the spreadsheet with puts, I see nornal-looking ASCII strings that I’m expecting to find. I’m getting this when trying to read a spreadsheet I download with curl & am attempting to extract data from: Errno::EINVAL: Invalid argument - ��ࡱ� method initialize in olestorage.rb at line 107 method initialize in olestorage.rb at line 107 method parse in parser.rb at line 172 method parse in parseexcel.rb at line 10 at top level in myScript.rb at line 40 Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-parseexcel-work-on-os-x/78000/2 "2006-12-02T16:28:47Z")
unknown wrote: > Anyone using parseexcel on a PowerPC Mac? Any tips as to how to get > this working? Is it possible that I have an issue with big endian vs > little endian data? When I dump the contents of the spreadsheet with > puts, I see nornal-looking ASCII strings that I’m expecting to find. > > I’m getting this when trying to read a spreadsheet I download with curl > & am attempting to extract data from: > > Errno::EINVAL: Invalid argument - ��ࡱ� > > method initialize in olestorage.rb at line 107 > method initialize in olestorage.rb at line 107 > method parse in parser.rb at line 172 > method parse in parseexcel.rb at line 10 > at top level in myScript.rb at line 40 > > Thanks! I saw the same thing on Solaris/Sparc. The size limitations of the library were a problem for me anyways, so I just used Perl to create the spreadsheet. Sorry, I know that’s not terribly helpful – just wanted to let you know that you’re not going crazy. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-parseexcel-work-on-os-x/78000/3 "2006-12-03T13:30:33Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > Anyone using parseexcel on a PowerPC Mac? Not familiar with parseexcel, but FWIW if you’ve a copy of Excel available then you could use rb-appscript to extract your data via Excel’s AppleScript interface. HTH has ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2006, 7:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-parseexcel-work-on-os-x/78000/4 "2006-12-04T07:14:28Z")
On Dec 3, 2006, at 4:30 AM, has wrote: > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > > > Anyone using parseexcel on a PowerPC Mac? > > Not familiar with parseexcel, but FWIW if you’ve a copy of Excel > available then you could use rb-appscript to extract your data via > Excel’s AppleScript interface. Works fine for reading in text data from Excel files (which is all I use it for). Not sure if this is just my lack of understanding, but I did have to write some code to parse date values correctly, and I couldn’t read some formula-derived text values. Scott