Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > The above code won't work because it splits on a comma. A lot of the fields contain a > comma somewhere within the actual data. If it was easy as that, I would have had > this done > long ago ;) > > -- > Andrew Gaffney Hi Andrew, Don't count on it not being that easy. Are you using the native capacities of the application to their best. I'm presuming here that a lawyer will have a full M$ Office suite, if they are u8sing the tools at all. You can paste tables from Word docs into Excel, and exoprt as CSV from there. Excel should have a much broader range of data export filters. It sound, though, like you will have a major job of normalization ahead. I would foresee a bit of hand work in the data design. One interim step you might take, for multivalued fields, is to concatenate them with some nuetral delimiter, such as a semi-colon. This way, as you normalize to break out any given field, you can use the Text::CSV module to get your fields, then split the fields of interest on the semicolons. If this material is already in an Office format, though, I would definitely recommend that you do as much as possible within Office. There is so much solid built-in functionality there that it wouldn't make sense to low-level something you can do with a macro. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
