drew wymore wrote: > [omissions for brevity] > > Thanks Rich and Michael. I'll give the perl a shot and see what > happens. As far as the data layout. It's 5 columns with roughly 1100 > rows, the column I'm interested in has a variable number of words per > entry but doesn't exceed a couple hundred words. > > I did enable fulltext searching within mysql which works fine for > searching but doesn't give me the flexibility I'm looking for to > actually just get a count of unique words. I did find something in PHP > that is supposed to work but it's barfing on the array that's being > returned by the mysql query. > > Drew- > drew wymore So you extract 1100, 5 column records into a cvs file? I take it you have that part down pat? OK, so is there something special going on, or could a spreadsheet handle your task? For example: is this a quick, once and done task? Regards Fred James
PS: OOo spreadsheets will open cvs files either as comma separated, tab separated (etc), or as fix length fields _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
