Posted by McHenry on 04/25/06 14:24

"Gernot Frisch" <Me@Privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "McHenry" <mchenry@mchenry.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>>I am familiar with asp and have done quite some coding using VBA etc.
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>> Presently I have a routine in asp that manipulates MS Excel objects etc,
>> can I control Excel objects in php too ?
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> Can you tounge-kiss a dog?
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> Sure you can, but why would you?
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I have an Excel sheet that queries 2000 web pages daily and stores the data
in a db...

Can you suggest another way to reliably query these 1300 pages and extract
the data without using the Excel Web Query function ?

p.s. regarding the dog comment... how do you know it can be done ?

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