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Posted by howcanimissu on 10/31/06 11:20
Thanks,
I will check out these tools, if I can save the file I can trigger a
conversion in excel I think,
as for option 2 can I use asp or VB 6 for that, I am not familiar with
..net yet.
Priti
Ben C wrote:
> On 2006-10-30, howcanimissu@hotmail.com <howcanimissu@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am wondering what the simpliest tool or best way is to go to website
> > using a program or tool and either:
> > a) saving the file at the URL ( In this case a ***.txt file is the url)
> > so it would be something like http:// www.testsite.com/testfile.txt .
> > This file is a simple pipe delimited text file with some rudimentary
> > data on it. I would like to automate this process so that whatever tool
> > I use goes to the site once every minute to get an update and saves the
> > file to my ftp.
>
> There are lots of ways. To get the page, wget or curl are suitable
> programs, Python's httplib will also do it.
>
> > FOllowing that I have to put this data into an xls file
> >
> > b) Mine the above data and delimit it and send it to an xls or html
> > file.
> >
> > Any thoughts, not looking to do much coding here just a tool to use if
> > possible to automate this process, will buy if need to.
>
> You are going to have to a little bit of coding I think. The task is
> just too specific, I don't see how anyone could sell a tool that did
> exactly this unless you paid someone specifically to write it.
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