Read and Transform Excel file in Databricks

Question

Hi All,

I have a requirement to read excel file placed in Azure blob via DataBricks using python notebook and replace new line characters present in that excel with some other characters like @#@#@# and paste this new excel file which has replaced characters again in Azure blob.

How to achieve this scenario of reading excel file and transforming it via Databricks?

Answer 1

Hello @Priya Jha ,

Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform

There are different variations possible starting from xls and xlsx, whether it contains macros, becomes xlsm, xlsxm etc.

If format becomes an issue, it might be just easier to create a copy of excel file as csv, then read it in a dataframe, process it easily, write it back with desired changes

This SO thread suggests it would work for xlsx, not sure however if it would be applicable for all xlsx files and for all other excel file types.

And also, refer to the Handling Excel Data in Azure Databricks

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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