title: How to copy data from xlsx file to a text file
body: <p>How can I copy data from column A and B of an <code>xlsx</code> file to a text file using any of the following:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Excel VBA script</li>
  <li>PHP</li>
  <li>Java</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I am  on ubuntu 12.04.1, using Libreoffice for xlsx.</p>
  
  <p>Also the words in the columns can have some special character like <code>(ü,ö,é,Ř)</code>, so the file can be ASCII only, and should be encoded in Unicode using the notation <code>\u + UTF-16</code> code point. Thus <code>“é”</code> becomes <code>“\u00e9”</code> and <code>“Ř”</code> becomes <code>“\u0158”</code>.</p>