(Apologies to the OP for first sending this to him and not the group.)
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:16:25 -0400, in perl you wrote:
Disclaimer: I'm using Acrobat 10 and Office 2010, so YMMV.
I opened the PDF in Acrobat and selected File, Save As, then chose
Tables in Excel Spreadsheet (*.xml). I
From time to time I need to parse the rankings PDF files from the
Women's Tennis Association. I would do it by copying all the text,
pasting it into a text file, and then using a Perl script to take each
line, splitting it by spaces into an array, and then manipulating those
arrays as need be.
[mailto:perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com] On Behalf Of Ted
Schuerzinger
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 4:53 PM
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Subject: Parsing a PDF with empty fields
From time to time I need to parse the rankings PDF files from the
Women's Tennis
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Subject: Parsing a PDF with empty fields
From time to time I need to parse the rankings PDF files from the
Women's Tennis Association. I would do it by copying all the text,
pasting it into a text file, and then using a Perl script to take each
line, splitting it by spaces into an array