Copying data from csv to ods

[settecplus]

Hi!

I'm facing a problem which my limited programming experience seems preventing me to solve...

I have a bunch of .csv files. I managed to open them, remove unnecessary stuff and combine them together. SO I ended up with a big single .csv containing all of my data. Now i need to import that content to a specific sheet inside a Libreoffice's Calc file. I've found the  OOoCOM_UDF_v08.au3 UDF, but honestly I'm having an hard time interpreting it's working... I found a couple of examples but none of them was conclusive... The point is I can read the whole .csv to an array, but how do i send it to the Calc document, splitting each column's content by its ";" ?

Is there anybody willing to help somehow? I can't even attach an example file because I'm really stuck in nowhere !

Luc

[water]

Don't know too much about OpenOffice/LibreOffice. But with Microsoft Excel you would simply start Excel and pass the CSV file. Excel automatically imports it.

[settecplus]

Thank you water. Libreoffice works the same way, but what I'm trying to do is automating the whole process, so in the end I just have to open the Calc file and the content is already there. Keep in mind the data it's been processed in the meantime by the script.

Luc

[water]

I'm not sure I get what you want. But if you use something like this in your script:

Run("..path to OpenOffice\calc.exe file.csv")

wouldn't it do what you need?

[settecplus]

Already tried that route. Two problems: first, I need a way to import the csv into a specific sheet of the Calc file. Second, but less important, that wouldn't make the process unattended, because it would open the import dialog requiring input from the user. Not a big deal the latter issue, but a big one the first.

Luc

[water]

Then you need one of the UDF functions.

Or search the forum for "Open Office calc". Maybe you'll find some code which can be at least a starting point.

Edited May 30, 2013 by water