On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andrew Gould wrote:http://www.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online/
> Problem: I've been trying to find a table of ICD-10 codes to import into a
> database; but the only listings that I can find are in publicly available
> pdf files. I've tried to copy the text to text files, but the resulting
> layout is horrible -- it would take, literally, weeks or months of manual
> tweaking to parse.
That looks like somewhere between half and a full day's work with a bit
of perl.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
I hadn't considered web scraping; but this is the cleanest option I've seen.
Thanks,
Andrew
