Filemaker Pro will export to a tab or comma delimited format, html table files, as well as: SYLK .DBF .DIF .wk1 (lotus 123) .bas (BASIC files) .mer (merge files)

It can also be set up to run as a web server. If your client is off-site you could perhaps be gathering info updates without having them send you exports, by issuing http requests to their system and extracting info from the replies.

If you want to go uberschnappen then you can learn CDML & create custom templates designed to be hit by your code that would be more efficient than using their GUI tools to build pages.

BUT, with regards to simply parsing the file format, no, it doesn't exist, yet. You've now given me a project, since I'm very familiar with FMPro, I guess I'm elected. Stay Tuned...



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In reply to Re: Filemaker Pro & Perl by gregor42
in thread Filemaker Pro & Perl by IOrdy

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