Re: [NTG-context] error with m-database example

16 Feb 2012


      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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