Re: manipulating Excel files

2010-08-30 Thread marc --
Hi, I am aware of the POI utility. Would appreciate an answer to my question if possible. Marc ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: manipulating Excel files

2010-08-30 Thread marc --
Hi, I am aware of the POI utility. Would appreciate an answer to my question if possible. Marc ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: manipulating Excel files

2010-08-30 Thread Dave Watts
I am aware of the POI utility. Would appreciate an answer to my question if possible. I don't think it's as simple as converting from binary to text and back again (as you've discovered). There's no guarantee that there'll be a one-to-one correspondence between the content of the binary file

Excluding characters from verity search

2010-08-30 Thread Richard Steele
Someone wrote a nice little cffunction, cfmodule or cfc to use with Verity searches to exclude illegal characters from the search routine. I've tried to find it using Google but have had no luck. Does anyone know of a pre-built function that will do this? Thanks!

Re: Excluding characters from verity search

2010-08-30 Thread Raymond Camden
VerityClean: http://www.cflib.org/udf/verityClean On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Richard Steele r...@photoeye.com wrote: Someone wrote a nice little cffunction, cfmodule or cfc to use with Verity searches to exclude illegal characters from the search routine. I've tried to find it

Re: manipulating Excel files

2010-08-30 Thread Steve Bryant
Marc, In this case it might be helpful to understand why POI isn't an option so that people can suggest approaches that might be useful but fit within your constraints. Steve ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

RE: manipulating Excel files

2010-08-30 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
Yes that would be interesting to know since I also believe that POI is what ColdFusion uses for its internal tags to do manipulation. I mean if it doesn't use POI, then why are the POI jars included in CF? :) -Original Message- From: Steve Bryant [mailto:st...@bryantwebconsulting.com]

Re: manipulating Excel files

2010-08-30 Thread Tony Bentley
I started to write the code answer but I'm afraid I didn't have time today. The short answer is that POI is probably the only option since there aren't really any other options within Java and your binary conversion method failed. To get the process going, I suggest reading your file in as a

Re: manipulating Excel files

2010-08-30 Thread denstar
There's JExcelAPI, too. It's API is pretty straightforward. http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/ I've got a custom tag for it... only tested on Railo recently though... :Den -- Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will

Git, CF and best practices

2010-08-30 Thread Mallory Woods
Hello all, I just started looking a git to use for source control for our CF projects. I wanted to ask those who are using it a few questions. First a few facts: Our servers are running Linux (dev, staging, production) but we are writing our code on Windows boxes. We are using CF builder and I

Re: Git, CF and best practices

2010-08-30 Thread Matt Williams
I'm not a git user myself, but here is a recent blog article I remember seeing: http://www.bytestopshere.com/post.cfm/git-is-scary-but-it-doesn-t-need-to-be -Matt On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Mallory Woods mallory.wo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I just started looking a git to use for

Re: Git, CF and best practices

2010-08-30 Thread Larry Lyons
You may find this presentation may help. http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p65645730/?launcher=falsefcsContent=truepbMode=normal Also Mike Henke (http://www.henke.ws/) blogs about using .git with CF on a regular basis. hth, larry Hello all, I just started looking a git to use for source control

Re: Git, CF and best practices

2010-08-30 Thread Kym Kovan
On 31/08/2010 11:16, Mallory Woods wrote: I just started looking a git to use for source control for our CF projects. I wanted to ask those who are using it a few questions. git is a distributed version control system so having a central repository is fine for later, completed versions