Bill and Dennis, Thanks a lot for the info. VERY helpful!
James --- http://www.devbistro.com --- Bill Siggelkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ooh ... I was just reminded that the values between > the commas should be > quoted in case there are internal commas ... > > > out.write("\"Every\",\"good\",\"boy\",\"does\",\"fine\"\r\n"); > > out.write("\"face\",\"in\",\"the\",\"space\",\"dude\"\r\n"); > > > Bill Siggelkow wrote: > > > Try something like this little servlet: > > > > import java.io.IOException; > > import java.io.PrintWriter; > > > > import javax.servlet.ServletException; > > import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet; > > import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; > > import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; > > > > public class CsvServlet extends HttpServlet { > > > > protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest > request, HttpServletResponse > > response) > > throws ServletException, IOException { > > doPost(request, response); > > } > > protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest > request, > > HttpServletResponse response) > > throws ServletException, IOException { > > response.setContentType("text/csv"); > > PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); > > out.write("Every,good,boy,does,fine\r\n"); > > out.write("face,in,the,space,dude\r\n"); > > out.flush(); > > } > > } > > > > > > klute wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I am looking for some best practices advice on > >> handling this task: > >> I have a web application (written in Struts) that > >> talks to some database. A browser user will be > able > >> user to export tabular data from the db in a > comma > >> delimited file and get a save as dialog box > prompting > >> to name the resulting file. > >> > >> I have not done this before so i am looking for > >> suggestions on how to accomplish it (in terms of > java > >> object interaction and whatever else). > >> Thanks a lot, > >> James > >> --- > >> http://www.devbistro.com > >> > >> > >> > >> __________________________________ > >> Do you Yahoo!? > >> Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail > SpamGuard. > >> http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]