From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 18:10:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1851337B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:10:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86CF343F75 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:10:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dlavigne6@cogeco.ca) Received: from dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca (d226-42-146.home.cgocable.net [24.226.42.146]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D62A0B6; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:10:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:14:38 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-X-Sender: dlavigne6@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca To: Martin Karlsson In-Reply-To: <20030326020347.GC653@c-303a70d5.bredbandsbolaget.se> Message-ID: <20030325211359.M17599@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> References: <20030325204410.D17599@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> <20030326020347.GC653@c-303a70d5.bredbandsbolaget.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-13.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port to convert comma delimited file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD user questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 02:10:58 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 02:10:58 -0000 On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Martin Karlsson wrote: > * Dru [2003-03-25 20.51 -0500]: > > > > Hello, > > Hi, > > > I have a comma delimited file with approximately 7000 rows and 5 columns. > > I have absolutely no database skills and and almost as much HTML skill, > > yet I need to convert this file into an HTML table. Is there something in > > the ports collection that will do this for me, a sort of converter for > > dummies? Barring that, is there any port that will do this, hopefully with > > docs so I can learn as I go? > > I couldn't find anything like that in the ports collection, but there > seems to be alternatives on the web, e.g. csv2html > URL:. > > Hint: search the web for csv (comma separated values) and html. Wow, that was quick. For the curious, the downloadable perl script does the trick nicely :-) Dru