Copying from Web Page

Question

My bank statement is accessible from the web. In Excel I can copy several rows and columns from that Web page and the paste them directly into my spreadsheet, where they are appropriately distributed across the various columns and rows.
When I try this in Numbers, they are distributed down a single column. How can I get them to distribute across several columns and rows?

Answer 1

Hello
- 1 - Look in the other thread, I posted a revised script.
- 2 - It appears that you passed 16 values.
So the original table was
1 row of 16 columns
or
2 rows of 8 columns
or
4 rows of 4 columns
or
8 rows of 2 columns.
or
16 rows of 1 column
The script can't guess which it is really, so it's your duty to type the correct columns number.
Here is a short script allowing you to save the clipboard's content in a text file.
Run it then send me the file attached to a mail at:
koenig PERIOD yvan AT tele2 PERIOD fr
I would be able to see if there is something I missed in your datas.
A screenshot of the original table would be useful too.
--[SCRIPT]
tell me to activate
set x to the clipboard as Unicode text
set fp to (path to desktop as Unicode text) & "clipboard-content"
writeData(fp, x, {_append:false})
on writeData(fp, x, {append:append})
text fp: output file path
data x: anything to be written to output file
boolean _append: true to append data, false to replace data
local a
try
open for access (file fp) with write permission
set a to fp as alias
if not _append then set eof a to 0
write x to a starting at eof
close access a
on error errs number errn
try
close access file fp
on error --
end try
error "writeData(): " & errs number errn
end try
end writeData
--[/SCRIPT]
With this one, no need to save it as an app.
Open it in the script editor
copy the table to the clipboard
Click the green button named "Exec" or "Run" (the 3rd one)
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 28 octobre 2007 12:33:23)