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| biswagourab |
 Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject: FileExtender for Excel sheet |
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Hi,
I have used the file extender to pick up messages from a flat file and process them in the compute node. I was keen to know if there is a way to pick up messages from an excel sheet and/or Word document to feed a compute node.
Has anyone done this before ? Will File Extender be able to handle Excel sheets ?
I am using WBIMB v6
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: |
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A file is a file is a file is a file. 
The real question is "How will broker parse an Excel spreadsheet (binary data) or a Word document (binary data mixed with text data)?"
Guess what. Other people have asked that question. And we've talked about it.
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| biswagourab |
| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:23 am Post subject: |
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So is there a way to do that ?
I went through the File Extender manuals and it does not speak much about the excel sheets or word docs, at most it says flat files 
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| biswagourab wrote: |
I went through the File Extender manuals and it does not speak much about the excel sheets or word docs, at most it says flat files
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Both Excel sheets and Word docs are flat files!
(Until Microsoft includes their JET engine in all their products because they become concerened they're not bloated enough.....  )
They just have (in common with all flat files) specific formats and coding rules. As such they can be described, explained, parsed and used - after all, that's all the Excel & Word applications are doing.
The forum search button (as jefflowrey indicated) will be your friend.
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| PieterV |
| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:45 am Post subject: |
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i think i remember that there were jar files who can interprete excel files.
So you can use a java compute node. |
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