[olug] Database export problem

[Will Langford]

woot, congrats :)


 On 10/15/05, Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, after a lot of playing around with the
> database's built-in export tools, I found out if I
> exported the data using 2 different tools I could get
> the results I needed.
> I also happened to be working with someone who knew
> Excel; Open Office wouldn't import like I wanted it
> to, but he got the data imported and looking right in
> about half an hour for each database in question.
>
> --- Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Oct 10, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Eric Lusk wrote:
> > > Well, it's slow work but I'm getting there....
> > Found
> > > out I can export PARTS of the database, but end up
> > > with everything split up in multiple ascii
> > files...
> > > Lots of copying and pasting going on.
> >
> > Echoing Dave and Russ' comments: Sounds like you
> > need/needed a little
> > data munging script. I've written hundreds of those
> > over the years,
> > mostly in Perl.
> >
> > Next time before you spend hours/days/weekends
> > copying and pasting you
> > might want to paste a few lines of your data to a
> > mailing list and
> > explain what your desired state is. You'll probably
> > get a dozen people
> > sending you 3-15 line programs that do what you want
> > (in various
> > languages -- take your pick).
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > j
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