port to convert comma delimited file

Martin Karlsson mk-freebsd at bredband.net
Wed Mar 26 02:03:59 PST 2003


* Dru <dlavigne6 at cogeco.ca> [2003-03-25 20.51 -0500]:
> 
> Hello,

Hi,

> I have a comma delimited file with approximately 7000 rows and 5 columns.
> I have absolutely no database skills and and almost as much HTML skill,
> yet I need to convert this file into an HTML table. Is there something in
> the ports collection that will do this for me, a sort of converter for
> dummies? Barring that, is there any port that will do this, hopefully with
> docs so I can learn as I go?

I couldn't find anything like that in the ports collection, but there
seems to be alternatives on the web, e.g. csv2html
URL:<http://watson-wilson.ca/computer/csv2html.html>.

Hint: search the web for csv (comma separated values) and html.

> Dru

HTH
-- 
Martin Karlsson


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