On 25 Oct 2007 at 11:58, Frank Cox wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:20:07 +0100 > "James Courtier-Dutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How would I get openoffice to do this information abstraction bit of the > > task? > > If I was you, I wouldn't. I would whip something up with C or Perl or > whatever to do the job directly and wouldn't try to do that with OpenOffice. > Especially when you're going to save the result in a simple CSV file.
Except his source iirc was M$ .doc files. He could use OOo to convert .doc to .txt, then use perl to munge the latter. The conversion can be done from the command line with suitable incantations. -- various incoming sites blocked because of spam; see http://www.scottsonline.org.uk for a list and openpgp crypto key (key fingerprint 2ACC 9F21 5103 F68C 7C32 9EA8 C949 81E1 31C9 1364) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
