Chapter 13. Document processing and reporting
This chapter covers
- Reading and writing CSV data
- Generating daily reports
- Producing a comparison report
- Generating customized printable reports
Though we’d all love to be video game programmers or lead developers for the Next Big Web 2.0 multimedia experience, most programmers have less glamorous problems to solve. This inevitably includes processing documents exported from sources, ranging from legacy systems to industry-standard SQL databases. Of course, collecting the data and translating it into a useable form is only half the challenge. Aggregated data then needs to be manipulated, analyzed, and formatted in ways that clearly communicate what that data represents. The field of reporting ranges ...
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