Oops sorry everyone... I forgot to change the subject line on the previous post.
> Hi Everyone, > > I have an excel spreadsheet that contains the itinerary of our traveling > technicians. I would like to parse that info and be notified of an > upcoming trip. For example: Say there is a trip coming up the Sunday > after next. I would like to be warned 3 days in advance to (windows > messenger or possible adding a task to scheduler, etc) make sure the > tech it notified and prepared. Currently my knowledge of Perl is that of > a cut and paste scripter so I thought this would be a good way to get > into the thick of it. Anyway I would like to parse the .xls file and > create a notification of upcoming events. > > Something like this: > > Date = today > Read in excel file > ScheduleDate = date from date column (formatted) > If ScheduleDate < 3 days from today's date > Then notify whoever (messenger) or add a scheduled task to notify user.. > Else do nothing > end > > I read a little about Win32:OLE, and HTML::PARSER (xporting the excel > into HTML), and HTML::ENTITIES. Which way is recommended? > > Can I do this will perl? Should I use another means (WSH, VBSCRIPT)? > > > > AD > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
