[Nh-pm] Excel

[Ben Boulanger]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Could you provide some examples of things you've done with these 
> modules?  I'm curious about how I might use them (now that I know 
> about them, I actually might have a need looking for a solution :)

Sure - in one case, someone was incredibly dead set on using a spreadsheet 
to track our IP space.  I convinced him to store it on the server and then 
parsed it with a perl script to be displayed as a cgi.  I had intentions 
to make the cgi interactive so that it would write back to the excel 
sheet, but never got around to it.  

In another case, I took ARIN's asn.txt file on a regular basis and 
translated that into an excel sheet for a different project.  Mapping 
things out for management and showing what locations had the most places 
with more than one link.. that kind of thing.  

It can be pretty invaluable.  

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