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Created April 15, 2020 10:23
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Get Office version that last saved the file
import re
import sys
versions = {
0x00: 'Excel 97',
0x01: 'Excel 2000',
0x02: 'Excel 2002',
0x03: 'Office Excel 2003',
0x04: 'Office Excel 2007',
0x06: 'Excel 2010',
0x07: 'Excel 2013',
0x08: 'Excel 2016 (or higher)'
}
if(len(sys.argv) != 2):
print " Usage: %s <file>" % sys.argv[0]
sys.exit(1)
with open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') as f:
content = f.read()
if(content[0:4] != '\xD0\xCF\x11\xE0'):
print "File is not an MS-XLS (CDF) file"
sys.exit(1)
m = re.search(b'\xCD\x07[\x00-\xff]{3}\x00\x06([\x00-\xff])\x00\x00', content)
if m is None:
print "No version info found"
sys.exit(1)
v = ord(m.group(1))
print "Version: %s" % versions.get(v, 'Unknown (0x%02x)' % v)
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