How to manipulate a table in .odt document?

LibreOffice Basic can use the object model of Open Office. Take the ThisComponent object which is the active document. It has a method to get the tables getTextTables.

This will return an array of table object. Program can iterate each element in the array.

	Doc = ThisComponent
	TextTables = Doc.getTextTables()
	For I = 0 to TextTables.count - 1
		Table = TextTables(I)
		   ...
	Next

Table object has methods to get row and column. Rows and Columns objects has count method to number of rows/columns in it.

Table uses a grid kind of structure. Cells are identified with a letter that represents column and a number that represents row. For example first cell will be named as A1. A for first column and 1 for first row. C6 will be cell at 3rd column 6th row.

you can get the cell by following code.

	Rows = Table.getRows
	Cols = Table.getColumns

	For RowIndex = 1 To Rows.getCount()
	taggedTbl = taggedTbl & rowStart
	   For ColIndex = 1 To Cols.getCount()
  	   	  taggedTbl = taggedTbl & cellStart
	      CellName = Chr(Asc("A") - 1 + ColIndex) & RowIndex
	      Cell = Table.getCellByName(CellName)
 	   Next
	Next

Once you get the cell, you can enumerate that cell and iterate through its elements.

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