The most obvious solution to this ($doc->Words->{'Count'}) doesn't actually do what you want, because it uses a different defintion of 'word' from that used by the word-count dialogue box. This version returns the same number as reported by Word 2003.
use strict;
use warnings;
use Cwd qw( abs_path );
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const;
my $ole_const =
{
%{ Win32::OLE::Const->Load
('Microsoft Word 11.0 Object Library') },
%{ Win32::OLE::Const->Load
('Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library') },
};
my @files = ( shift @ARGV ) || glob( "*.doc" );
my $word = Win32::OLE->new( 'Word.Application', 'Quit' )
or die "Can't start Word: "
. Win32::OLE->LastError . "\n";
for my $file ( @files )
{
my $fully_qualified_file = abs_path( $file );
my $doc = $word->Documents->Open( $fully_qualified_file )
or die "Can't open document '$fully_qualified_file': "
. Win32::OLE->LastError . "\n";
my $word_count = $doc->ComputeStatistics
({
Statistic
=> $ole_const->{'wdStatisticWords'},
IncludeFootnotesAndEndnotes
=> $ole_const->{'msoTrue'},
});
$doc->Close();
printf "%-25s %6u\n", $file, $word_count;
}
$word->Quit();
exit 0;