Background: I am building an application that is going to replace a client-server document publication app. The old app was custom written and used MS Word as the editor to save and store content for the documents that needed to be published. It was poorly implemented, but it worked well enough.
In rebuilding the app, I'm importing the content from those MS Word docs usind a cfx tag that's converting the word doc into straight text, removing all formatting and other junk but leaving all text and whitespace characters. For a couple of reasons (first, the original database only has basic ODBC drivers and I couldn't get it to work with MX, second the huge perfromance hit when using COM with CFMX -- importing 14k docs took 8+ hours on MX and less than 90 minutes with CF5) I am using ColdFusion 5 on a dev server running Win2K Server. Many of these docs have tabs in them for formatting basic columnar data; the tab does not, of course, have any real meaning in the web world (and browsers collapse whitespace), so the result is that all of the columnar data is out of whack. My first thought it to use rereplace to find tab chars and replace them with NBSP's. I am doing the following: cfset tmp.content = rereplace(tmp.content, "[\t]+", " ", "ALL") Which I thought would replace tabs, but it's instead replacing all of the "t" characters. What's wrong with my regex code? Next, I would actually prefer to somehow parse out these docs and instead of using non-breaking spaces, I'd like to wrap that columnar data in a table. Has anyone done this before, and if so, what was your approach? String parsing isn't my strong suit. If necessary, I COULD do a basic Word scrape in CF5 but then do a more advanced content manipulation using CFMX7. ANY help would be appreciated. I'd appreciate a free solution, but if a good pay solution exists, let me know. Thanks, Pete ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:218494 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
