topic Re: CSV to HTML in Operating System - Linux

CSV to HTML

Patrick Ware_1 — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:32:33 GMT

Hello,

I am looking for a program or script that will convert CSV files to HTML files. Does anyone know of such a script or program?

Re: CSV to HTML

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:59:10 GMT

Hi Patrick:

Have a look at this Perl module to define a HTML table from comma-separated values.

http://search.cpan.org/~jmason/HTML-WebMake-2.2/lib/HTML/WebMake/PerlLib/csvtable_tag.wmk

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: CSV to HTML

Mark Greene_1 — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:59:15 GMT

Here's a swiss-army-knife version:

http://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/t2t/text2table.htm

mark

Re: CSV to HTML

Patrick Ware_1 — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:02:08 GMT

Thanks guys. I forgot to mention that it needs to run on HP-UX.

Re: CSV to HTML

Peter Godron — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:10:30 GMT

Patrick,
James's Perl module should work on hpux.

I assume you want to convert csv to a html table, not just make it viewable via a browser, otherwise you could use the AddType command in the browser conf.

Re: CSV to HTML

Patrick Ware_1 — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:25:02 GMT

AddType? Are you referring to filters for the httpd.conf file? How would you specify that using the perl module? I have been reading the docs on apache.org regarding that.

Re: CSV to HTML

Peter Godron — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:41:20 GMT

Patrick,
sorry to confuse the issue.

The Perl module will convert a csv file to a html table format.

My question was whether that was what you wanted to happen i.e. csv to html table.
If you wanted to just display the csv file as text, you would use the AddType in httpd.conf. We display txt files as text on the browser, but for csv we display as spreadsheet.

Re: CSV to HTML

Patrick Ware_1 — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:50:23 GMT

That's exactly what I want. I have a script already in place to convert a XML spreadsheet to CSV. Now I need to convert the CSV to HTML.