I am trying the last two weeks to convert a query data to ms word doc using Coldfusion.The only approach that i have found is:
<cfcontent type="application/msword">
<cfquery name="getArtist" datasource="cfartgallery">
SELECT *
FROM Artists
</cfquery>
<cfdump var=#getArtist#>
The above is converting the query in doc (you can open it as doc) but if you skip to open the file and directly save it the only way that you can save it is as a ".cfm".
This is not what i need. I am trying to build an app that users can download articles in ms word files. Pdf is not an option.
Thank you in advance and be well,
Tom
Use cfdocument to output it as a pdf. This should work ok and open easily in MS Word or elsewhere.
<cfdocument
format="pdf"
filename = "pdfpath\pdffile.pdf"
overwrite = "yes"
marginBottom = ".2"
marginLeft = ".4"
marginRight = ".4"
marginTop = ".2">
Blah blah stuff here...
</cfdocument>
Edit: Sorry, I missed your note that PDF is not an option.
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I've been trying to manipulate a file that's base64 encoded that I'm recieving from my client.
I'm currently using https://github.com/zdavatz/spreadsheet/blob/master/GUIDE.md to manipulate it, however, there doesn't appear to be any way to open a file directly from the base64 blob, or should I write it and then read from it? can't that a potential security threat for the server?
for example, if I recieve a file :
file = params[:file] with contents:
data:application/vnd.ms-excel;base64,0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOwADAP7
(should I remove the data:application/vnd.ms-excel;base64, ?)
I'd like to open it with this:
Spreadsheet.client_encoding = 'UTF-8'
book = Spreadsheet.open "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/spreadsheet/event.xls"
(or with a blob or temp fle)
Sorry if it's pretty obvious, been looking for hours and there's not much info about it available, tried creating a temp file first but I don't think that's supported and there's not much I can get from the docs.
Shot in the dark: Maybe decode it, write to binary-enabled tempfile, and then feed that to Spreadsheet?
tmpfile = Tempfile.new.binmode
tmpfile << Base64.decode64(params[:file])
tmpfile.rewind
book = Spreadsheet.open(tmpfile)
I am scripting with DM and would like to read hdf5 file format.
I borrowed Tore Niermann's gms_HDF5_Plug-In (hdf5_GMS2X_amd64.dll) and his CMD_import_hdf5.s script. It use h5_read_dataset(filename, datapath) to read a image dataset.
I am trying to figure out the way to read a string info stored in the same file. I am particular interested to read the angle stored in string as shown in this figure.Demonstrated string to read. The h5_read_dataset(filename, datapath) function doesn't work for reading string.
There is a help file (hdf5_plugin.chm) with a list of functions but unfortunately I can't open them to see more info.
hdf5_plugin.chm showing the function list.
I suppose the right function to read strings should be something like h5_read_attr() or h5_info() but I didn't test them out. DM always says the two functions doesn't exist.
After reading out the angle by string, I will also need a bit help to convert the string to a double datatype.
Thank you.
Converting String to Number is done with the Val() command.
There is no integer/double/float concept for variables in DM-script, all are just number. ( This is different for images, where you can define the numeric type. Also: For file-inport/export a type differntiation can be made using the taggroup streaming commands in the other answer. )
Example script:
string numStr = "1.234e-2"
number num = val( numStr )
ClearResults()
Result( "\n As string:" + numStr )
Result( "\n As value:" + num )
Result( "\n As value, formatted:" + Format(num,"%3.2f") )
Potential answer regarding the .chm files: When you download (or email) .chm files in Windows, the OS classifies them as "potentially dagerouse" (because it could contain executable HTML code, I think). As a result, these files can not be shown by default. However, you can right-click these files and "unblock" them in the file properties.
Example:
I think this will be most likely a question specific to that plugin and not general DM scripting. So it might be better to contact the plugin-author directly.
The alternative (not good) solution would be to "rewrite" your own HDF5 file-reader, if you know the file-format. For this you would need the "Streaming" commands of the DM script language and browse through the (binary?) source file to the apropriate file location. The starting point for reading on this in the F1 help documentation would be here:
I'm on Rails 5 (Ruby 2.4). I want to read an .xls doc and I would like to get the data into CSV format, just as it appears in the Excel file. Someone recommended I use Roo, and so I have
book = Roo::Spreadsheet.open(file_location)
sheet = book.sheet(0)
text = sheet.to_csv
arr_of_arrs = CSV.parse(text)
However what is getting returned is not the same as what I see in the spreadsheet. For isntance, a cell in the spreadsheet has
16:45.81
and when I get the CSV data from above, what is returned is
"0.011641319444444444"
How do I parse the Excel doc and get exactly what I see? I don't care if I use Roo to parse or not, just as long as I can get CSV data that is a representation of what I see rather than some weird internal representation. For reference the file type I was parsing givies this when I run "file name_of_file.xls" ...
Composite Document File V2 Document, Little Endian, Os: Windows, Version 5.1, Code page: 1252, Author: Dwight Schroot, Last Saved By: Dwight Schroot, Name of Creating Application: Microsoft Excel, Create Time/Date: Tue Sep 21 17:05:21 2010, Last Saved Time/Date: Wed Oct 13 16:52:14 2010, Security: 0
You need to save the custom formula in a text format on the .xls side. If your opening the .xls file from the internet this won't work but this will fix your problem if you can manipulate the file. You can do this using the function =TEXT(A2, "mm:ss.0") A2 is just the cell I'm using as an example.
book = ::Roo::Spreadsheet.open(file_location)
puts book.cell('B', 2)
=> '16.45.8'
If manipulating the file is not an option you could just pass a custom converter to CSV.new() and convert the decimal time back to the correct format you need.
require 'roo-xls'
require 'csv'
CSV::Converters[:time_parser] = lambda do |field, info|
case info[:header].strip
when "time" then begin
# 0.011641319444444444 * 24 hours * 3600 seconds = 1005.81
parse_time = field.to_f * 24 * 3600
# 1005.81.divmod(60) = [16, 45.809999999999999945]
mm, ss = parse_time.divmod(60)
# returns "16:45.81"
time = "#{mm}:#{ss.round(2)}"
time
rescue
field
end
else
field
end
end
book = ::Roo::Spreadsheet.open(file_location)
sheet = book.sheet(0)
csv = CSV.new(sheet.to_csv, headers: true, converters: [:time_parser]).map {|row| row.to_hash}
puts csv
=> {"time "=>"16:45.81"}
{"time "=>"12:46.0"}
Under the hood roo-xls gem uses the spreadsheet gem to parse the xls file. There was a similar issue to yours logged here, but it doesn't appear that there was any real resolution. Internally xls stores 16:45.81 as a Number and associates some formatting with it. I believe the issue has something to do with the spreadsheet gem not correctly handling the cell format.
I did try messing around with adding a format mm:ss.0 by following this guide but I couldn't get it to work, maybe you'll have more luck.
You can use converters option. It seems looking like this:
arr_of_arrs = CSV.parse(text, {converters: :date_time})
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/csv/rdoc/CSV.html
Your problem seems to be with the way you're parsing (reading) the input file.
roo parses only Excel 2007-2013 (.xlsx) files. From you question, you want to parse .xls, which is a different format.
Like the documentation says, use the roo-xls gem instead.
I'm using Delphi 7 and I'd like to export the contents of a list from my program to OpenOffice Calc using automation, instead of using files.
The task is simple: create new document, iterate through rows/columns and change cell data.
I've found some code but it's not complete, and I was hoping someone has some example code ready to accomplish this very simple task. It could save me a few hours of trying.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: I'd like to automate OpenOffice Calc to achieve what I wrote above. Thanks!
The easiest solution is to write CSV file output, and open that in OpenOffice.
There are also libraries to write .XLS files which both OpenOffice Calc and Excel can read. CSV is so simple, I wonder that you need an example. Create a TStringList, and add strings to it, in comma separated format. Save to file.
The so called "programmatic" method involves OLE automation.
uses
OleAuto;
var
mgr,calc,sheets,sheet1,dt,args:Variant;
begin
args = VarArrayCreate(...);
mgr := CreateOleObject('com.sun.star.ServiceManager');
dt := mgr.createInstance('com.sun.star.frame.Desktop')
calc = dt.loadComponentFromURL('private:factory/scalc', '_blank', 0, args)
sheets = calc.getSheets()
sheet1 = sheets.getByIndex(0)
...
Open Office supports Automation
see: http://udk.openoffice.org/common/man/tutorial/office_automation.html
Open Office info for Delphi can be found at:
http://development.openoffice.org/#OLE
The site ooomacros.org seems to be down, luckily the wayback machine still has a copy:
http://replay.web.archive.org/20090608051118/http://www.ooomacros.org/dev.php
Good luck.
I don't really understand how Content importer/processor works in XNA.
I need to read a text file (Content/levels/level1.txt) of the form:
x x
x x
x x
where x's are just integers, into an int[,] array.
Any tips on writting a SIMPLE .txt importer??? By searching google/msdn I only found .x/.fbx file importer examples. And they seem too complicated.
Do you actually need to process the text file? If not, then you can probably skip most of the content pipeline.
Something like:
string filename = "Content/TextFiles/sometext.txt";
string path = Path.Combine(StorageContainer.TitleLocation, filename);
string lineOfText;
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path);
while ((lineOfText = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
{
// do something
}
Also, be sure to set the "Build Action" to "None" and the "Copy to Output Directory" to "Copy if newer" on the text files you've added. This tells the content pipeline not to compile the text file but rather copy it to the output directory for use as is.
I got this (more or less) from the RacingGame sample provided by Microsoft. It foregoes much of the content pipeline and simply loads and processes text files (XML) for much of its level data.
XNA 4.0 uses
System.IO.Stream stream = TitleContainer.OpenStream("tilename.txt");
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb199094.aspx and also http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2010/12/09/reading-files-in-xna-game-studio-4-0.aspx
There doesn't seem to be a lot of info out there, but this blog post does indicate how you can load .txt files through code using XNA.
Hopefully this can help you get the file into memory, from there it should be straightforward to parse it in any way you like.
XNA 3.0 - Reading Text Files on the Xbox
http://www.ziggyware.com/readarticle.php?article_id=69 is probably a good place to start. It covers creating a basic content processor.