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Best way to do a Word for Mac conversion to a text file format in Perl?

by axiomcrs (Initiate)
on Jan 18, 2013 at 18:45 UTC ( [id://1014108]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

axiomcrs has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I would like to convert some Word for Mac files into text files from perl. That will make them more suited to the parsing with regexes I would like to do. I have written a similar script in Windows, but now it must done on the Mac, i.e. 10.6.8. Word for Mac is version 2008. Thank you.
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Re: Best way to do a Word for Mac conversion to a text file format in Perl?
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Jan 18, 2013 at 19:05 UTC
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Re: Best way to do a Word for Mac conversion to a text file format in Perl?
by tobyink (Canon) on Jan 18, 2013 at 21:16 UTC

    I've had good results from Text::Extract::Word - can't say whether it specifically deals with files from that particular version of Word though.

    perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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Re: Best way to do a Word for Mac conversion to a text file format in Perl?
by mhearse (Chaplain) on Jan 18, 2013 at 19:47 UTC
    Here's the poor man's way: 
    strings microsloft.doc | perl -e 'yourcode'

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