sunrat Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Dreamweaver has a brilliant function which converts comma-separated text files to a neat HTML table. Is there a Linux app that can do this? Open Office has Text=>Table, but adds too much formatting and fixed column widths that I just don't need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicDragon Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 I've never heard of that feature before, but have you looked in Bluefish and Quanta? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doryforos Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 gawkgawk-3.1.3 User Guide (PDF)Command Line utility and command language interpreter, which makes extensive use of regular expressions to manipulate text.I'm in the process of exploring it -- I don't know whether there are any graphical front-ends for it (but I don't think so, either). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted March 12, 2004 Author Share Posted March 12, 2004 Hmmm, looks a bit like programming is required. Seems like it's very powerful, but I need to learn more basics first. Still, will check it out further. I've never heard of that feature before, but have you looked in Bluefish and Quanta?In Dreamweaver MX it's under Import>Tabular Data, which imports a CSV text file and makes a neat, lean-coded HTML table with only a couple of clicks.Bluefish, Quanta, Screem, and Amaya don't have a similar function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 (edited) http://dataconv.org/apps_www.htmlThe above page has many web building tools for Linux :)The one you are looking for is t2t (It is built in Perl for Linux)Actual webpage for t2t (version 4 release) here:t2t version 4Works in Windows/UNIX/MacBut thought everyone would like to see the other html tools listed on dataconv.org as well. * Moved to the Programming and Web Dev Edited March 12, 2004 by LilBambi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebkens Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 Wow!! Great website Fran - I end up with many diverse conversion questions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 Yes, one does kinda lead to the other doesn't it.In Windows I usually use jafsoft's AscToTab (postcardware):Convert text files to HTML or RTF tables with AscToTabDoes a great job ... for a client I convert his Excel documents in Excel to tab delimited text files then convert with AscToTab for insertion in his pages.That way I can use Excel to do the ABC sort before I convert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebkens Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 That is one of my conversions exactly & creating a webpage from Excel makes SUCH a mess. A few times during soccer season, I need to convert a ref schedule in excel to be posted to the website. I'll try your tools this time around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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