web tables 2 rev tables

2009-12-22 Thread Roger . E . Eller
What is the most direct way to convert the data in an html table into data to fill a 'basic table field' (not a dataGrid)? I have tried stripping away tags and plucking data from between tabletrtdcell data/td/tr/table. This is tedious, and I'm sure there must be a better way. Thanks. ~Roger

Re: web tables 2 rev tables

2009-12-22 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Roger, It seems to me the bigger problem is the conversion of nested html tables, which are pretty common. That said, here is a button script that converts a 'simple' html table to a tab-delimited text file. From there the sky is the limit. ;-) NOTE: This code works with only the

Re: web tables 2 rev tables

2009-12-22 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: Hi Roger, It seems to me the bigger problem is the conversion of nested html tables, which are pretty common. That said, here is a button script that converts a 'simple' html table to a tab-delimited text file. From there the sky is the limit. ;-) NOTE:

Re: web tables 2 rev tables

2009-12-22 Thread Jim Ault
It also works if you do a more general code replace table with (cr table) in tData since there is no other html tag that has the word 'table' in it to confuse your script Jim Ault Las Vegas On Dec 22, 2009, at 7:51 PM, roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net