On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Huxton <d...@archonet.com> wrote:
> Andrew Gould wrote: > > Problem: I've been trying to find a table of ICD-10 codes to import into > a > > database; but the only listings that I can find are in publicly available > > pdf files. I've tried to copy the text to text files, but the resulting > > layout is horrible -- it would take, literally, weeks or months of manual > > tweaking to parse. > > http://www.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online/ > > That looks like somewhere between half and a full day's work with a bit > of perl. > > -- > Richard Huxton > Archonet Ltd > I hadn't considered web scraping; but this is the cleanest option I've seen. Thanks, Andrew
