Oh come now. Surely we could think of a worse way. ;)
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Rick Root <rick.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Marc, > > This seems like the worst possible way of attempting this. The POI > library included with CF8 allows you to manipulate native excel > documents using java calls from within CF > > Check out Ben Nadel's POIUtility.cfc > > http://www.bennadel.com/projects/poi-utility.htm > > Rick > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:56 PM, marc -- <m...@marcbakker.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > recently I wanted to stream an Excel file from the server to a client > browser. Before streaming it to the user, I wanted to replace some > placeholders in the file (like <name>,<place>) with their actual values (# > user.name#,#user.place#). So this was the setup: > > > > 1 read binary (.xls) template file > > 2 read binary data and replace every occurence of the placeholder with > it's actual value > > 3 stream the binary data to the client using <cfcontent variable=...> > > > > This cannot be done without converting the binary Excel data to a text > format. > > > > So I tried BinaryEncode(binaryData,"Hex"). > > This gave me the binary data in Hexadecimal format. > > Then I translated the placeholder (e.g. "<name>") to it's hex > representation. > > Then translated the actual value (e.g. "marc") to it's hex > representation. > > Then I did a ReplaceNoCase(a,b,c) where > > a=the binarydata in HEX format, > > b=the place holder in hex format, > > c=the actual value in hex format > > Then I translated a back to binary using ToBinary() > > > > This didn't work since, as I found out, the hexadecimal value for the > place holder was never found in the converted binary data (in > ReplaceNoCase(a,b,c) ). > > > > Why is this approach not working? > > > > Is it possible at all to find and replace text values in an excel file > this way - so without using things like POI utility? > > > > Btw Translating the file to xml is not an option since it contains > graphics which are not supported in this format. > > > > I do this in CF 8 on WinXP > > > > Thanks, > > > > Marc > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336615 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
