From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: error with m-database example
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:16:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3CF393.4020506@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3CE268.2060401@yahoo.com>
On 16-2-2012 12:03, Martin wrote:
> Admittedly I feel a bit lost when looking at the various processing
> modules...
>
> My goal is to create template based output. I have created a rough
> mail-merge example (with LibreOffice) and attached it as PDF for
> illustration.
>
> There is a CSV database with currently 8 fields, probably a few more
> will be added. These fields need to be placed into a form, in my example
> a list of courses. Other forms based on the same data should follow.
> These forms/lists will then be printed.
>
> Hope that makes sense. Maybe I'm pushing the database module a bit to
> far, but I was just trying to avoid "mail-merges"...
\starttext
\startluacode
-- or: str = io.loaddata(somefile)
local str = [[
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h
]]
local list = string.splitlines(str)
for i=1,#list do
local fields = utilities.parsers.settings_to_array(list[i])
if fields[1] then
context("field 1: %s",fields[1])
context.par()
end
end
\stopluacode
\stoptext
so:
- read in the cvs file
- split them into lines
- loop over each line
- split that line
- and mess around with the fields
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-16 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-15 15:06 Martin
2012-02-15 20:12 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-02-15 20:54 ` Martin
2012-02-15 21:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-02-16 11:03 ` Martin
2012-02-16 12:16 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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2010-12-19 19:37 Florian Wobbe
2010-12-20 16:56 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-12-20 17:46 ` Florian Wobbe
2010-12-20 21:32 ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-21 8:20 ` Florian Wobbe
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