Parsing Word Doc files

[Regent]

Hi, friends

I searched cpan in vain for a module that can read (parse) MS Word .doc files. Can someone refer me to one somewhere or give me a hint about the structure of such files? Thanks!

Regent
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[Chris]

Hi, friends

I searched cpan in vain for a module that can read (parse) MS Word .doc files. Can someone refer me to one somewhere or give me a hint about the structure of such files? Thanks!

Assuming you are (1) on *nix and (2) wanting to use Perl to just get the
text from a Word document, trying piping the results of 'antiword' into
Perl:

$ antiword microslop.doc | perl script.pl # or...
$ antiword microslop.doc | perl -e 'while (<>) { chomp; do_stuff; }'

Chris

 

[Michele Ouellet]

Can someone refer me to one somewhere or give me a hint about the
structure of such files? Thanks!

The format is proprietary and liable to change at any time. If you are
running under Windows, your best bet is probably to use OLE ( for instance,
the Win32::OLE module in the ActiveState Perl distribution ). You then need
to study the Word object model for the manipulations you want to perform; VB
code can generally found and adapted to your needs.

If you are not running under Windows, you might find something in
SourceForge, not necessarily in Perl, though.

Mich¨¨le.