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Re: [PHP] .doc file From: David T-G (davidtg-php <email protected>)
Date: 03/30/04

Tony, et al --

...and then Anthony Ritter said...
%
% 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.

%
% 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.

Ewwww!

%
% 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

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.

%
% Thank you.
% TR

HTH & HAND

:-D 

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