Re: .doc file

Tony, et al -- ..and then Anthony Ritter said... % % Greets, % I've been able to open a remote URL, read it and then lop off everything % except the last line and break it into an array with its' tabs - /t . Good enough. % % The data will then be inserted into a table. % % However, the following URL shows reservoir storage and is a .doc file. I am % unable to run the same script with this URL since it is a .doc file - not a % .txt file. Ewwww! % % The client has said that this is the only file that their office has and % does not offer any csv or tsv .txt files. % % Is there anyway to acheive formatting this data using the following file? % % http://water.usgs.gov/orh/nrwww/odrm/storage2004.doc Have you tried wvware? It would be a temp file mess, but you could - get the doc file and store a temp copy - run wvText on it to convert to a text file - parse the results - clean up, of course to get your last line. The wv* utils do a quite acceptable job of converting DOC files into other formats, and definitely don't need a Windows server laying around. % % Thank you. % TR HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!