lanette wrote > Hello, is it possible to parse a string to > csv spreadsheet like in Ruby > <http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/csv/rdoc/CSV.html> > , for example writing this > <br> > <br> > <code> > CSV.open(save_path, 'wb') do |csv| > <br> > arr.each{|row| csv << row} > <br> > end > <br> > </code> > <br> > will parse an array of string to csv format and I can then to save/export > it for my spreadsheet work. To my understanding, there's no parser capability in OpenScad. The only thing I found close is something described in String Theory, a string library for OpenSCAD <http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:526023> (also check out the comments), which is far from a full-scale text-file parser, not to mention that OpenSCAD cannot read a text file as a string. lanette wrote > Additionally, I would like to get the module name and the bounding box > dimension of a module (which contains shapes/union/difference etc) in the > form of x_length, y_width and z_depth and return them as a string. > <br> > <br> > Really appreciate if someone could give pointers on how to go develop > them. This is also not possible in OpenSCAD. However, blobule <http://forum.openscad.org/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=1094> developed some stuff to calc the center and vol of a mass, from there it might be possible to the the dimension (my really wild guess): http://forum.openscad.org/Volume-and-Center-of-mass-td15421.html ----- $ Runsun Pan, PhD $ libs: doctest , faces ( git ), offline doc ( git ), runscad.py ( 2 , git ), synwrite ( 2 ); &nbsp; $ tips: hash ( 2 ), matrix ( 2 , 3 ), sweep ( 2 ), var ( 2 ), lerp , animation ( gif , prodVid , animlib ), precision ( 2 ), xl-control , type , rounded polygon , chfont , tailRecur ( 2, 3 ), isosphere ( 2 ), area , vol/center , RGB , CurvedImg ; $ Apps: rollApp , blockscad , openjscad , on AWS ( pdf ) -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Parsing-string-to-spreadsheet-tp18007p18008.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.