html table to .csv

[jjorgensen626]

Does anyone know how to do this? I have tables that are generated from asp that i would like to allow clients to download to a .csv file to their pc.

Thanks

[Arizona Web]

if you alter the same script that generate the tables, get rid of the and , get rid of all , replace all instances of with a tab, and replace all instances of wit ha line break, you have a properly formatted csv file (provided there are no tabs or line breaks in your data). You can then make a button that calls a script that generate the file for download.

Do you know how to create headers that force a download?

[jjorgensen626]

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<% While ((Repeat1__numRows <> 0) AND (NOT Recordset1.EOF)) %>
<%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("location").Value)%>
<%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("activity").Value)%>
<%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("job").Value)%>
<%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("hours").Value)%>
<%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("dateAC").Value)%>
<%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("info").Value)%>
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<%
Repeat1__index=Repeat1__index+1
Repeat1__numRows=Repeat1__numRows-1
Recordset1.MoveNext()
Wend
%>


 

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[jjorgensen626]

Any Clues?

[Moritz]

Hi jjorgensen626,

maybe I can help, but I have only done that in jsp-pages.

To export a table, I have a button, which opens a new jsp-Page, just call it excel.jsp. In excel.jsp I set the following values of the Response-object:

response.setContentType("application/binary");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\""+ strFile +"\";");

Afterwards, I open the connection to the database, get the ResultSet and instead of writing it into a table, I use a OutputStream, which I get from the Response-Object:
OutputStream ostr = response.getOutputStream();

For every col I add a ";" after the colvalue, after every row I add a "\n" for a linebreak.

Resultset rs = dbcon.createStatement().executeQuery(query);
while (rs.next()){
ostr.write((rs.getString("col1")+";").toBytes());
ostr.write((rs.getString("col2")+";").toBytes());
ostr.write("\n".toBytes());
}
rs.close()........

Maybe this helps and you can change it so it works in asp, c#/.net.

best regards,
Moritz

[DaveSW]

have you googled this? There's a few useful links there:
http://www.google.com/search?q=asp+generate+csv+file&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8