pdf to spreadsheet advice

2010-09-06 Thread Matt Johnson
Hello, I periodically receive pdf's with a table of member names, addresses, etc in a badly formated hard to read pdf. I would like to open the pdf, extract the data, do a little re-organizing and write it to an excel spreadsheet. Perl seems like the best way to do this. I have searched CPAN and

Re: Help with WWW::Mechanize

2006-11-30 Thread Matt Johnson
Mathew Snyder wrote: > Tom Phoenix wrote: >> On 11/28/06, Mathew Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I have a form I'm trying to fill out. One of the fields, despite >>> being named in >>> the HTML source keeps erroring out on me. >>> >>> fields => { >>> "ValueOfStatu

Re: How to manipulate environment variables in parent process?

2006-11-14 Thread Matt Johnson
siegfried wrote: >>> I think the best I could hope for would be to write a perl script that >>> generated a bat file and then I manually execute the bat file. I don't >>> think there is anyway to automate the execution of the bat file. >> I'm sure that there is; if you can't put it into its own bat

Re: How to use Perl for API testing

2006-07-10 Thread Matt Johnson
You might want to consider Test::WWW::Mechanize http://search.cpan.org/author/PETDANCE/Test-WWW- Mechanize-1.12/Mechanize.pm or WWW-Mechanize http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.18/ lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm -- MattJ On Jul 9, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Suja Emmanuel wrote: Hi,

Re: best way of getting a web document

2006-06-25 Thread Matt Johnson
manipulation in some cases. -- Matt Johnson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: User define switch

2006-02-20 Thread Matt Johnson
Andrej Kastrin wrote: > Dear all, > > Is there any simple way to add user defined switches in Perl. I want > someting like that: > > perl --filein MyInputFileName --fileout MyOutputFileName ##in command line > > With --filein switch I want to define file, which will be read as the > input and w