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[PHP] Re: .doc file From: Jason Barnett (jasbarne <email protected>)
Date: 03/30/04

Anthony Ritter wrote:

> 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 .
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> Thank you.
> TR

Do you have a compatible version of Microsoft Excel? If so you can
probably copy and paste the values into a spreadsheet and convert the
spreadsheet into csv or tsv. If that's not an option for you then you
*might* be able to try PEAR's OLE package... but that would be my last
resort. 

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