Tony, et al --
...and then Anthony Ritter said...
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% 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.
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% The data will then be inserted into a table.
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% 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.
E!
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% 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?
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% 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.
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% Thank you.
% TR
HTH & HAND
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