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- From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
- Subject: Re: Program to convert text data to spreadsheet or database formats
- Message-ID: <Bt3Loq.GC4@animal.gcs.co.nz>
- Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand
- References: <1992Aug13.103020.14180@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:41:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.103020.14180@ms.uky.edu> tek@ms.uky.edu (Thomas E. Kunselman) writes:
- >Does anyone know of a program for windows or dos that can be used to easily
- >convert data that is in a text format to a spreadsheet or database format?
- >
- >I know about parsing within spreadsheets, but apparently this is too
- >difficult for our secretary to learn how to use. Is there something
- >even more friendly than that?
- >
- >Thanks!
- >--
- >Thomas Kunselman {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!tek
- >Office of Planning & Assessment bitnet: vaatek@ukcc.bitnet
- >#8 Administration Building internet:tek@ms.uky.edu
- >University of Kentucky
-
- Yes I have had some difficulty with parsing myself. With large files it
- can take a while and you may have to split up the parse. I have had
- great success in using csv files (comma separated values). If you can
- get the text data into a form where each proposed field is separated from
- its neighbour by a comma then Excel can import those directly as .csv
- files.
-
- Laurence Chiu
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