Hi, thanks for the reply - I read that post before posting this (we are NOT colleagues), and I attempted to integrate his retrieval method using STDOUT, but I still receive the same result. Also it seems his question had a different use-case...
Should I always be using STDOUT/fetchrow() for this type of retrieval?
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Dealing with a general docx file, especially one produced by Word, is difficult because Microsoft don't follow their own specs in all cases. Usually, most specific cases are easier - it's perfectly possible to produce valid, well formatted docx documents using e.g. Template::Toolkit and Archive::Zip, since docx files are just zipped xml at heart.
I have no knowledge of SQL Server BLOB formats, but it might be worth trying to unzip the .docx file you produce to see if:-
- It's a valid zip file.
- It contains stuff that looks like xml
If it doesn't look anything like a zip file, you probably need to do some more processing on the BLOB before writing it to file; if it looks docx-ish, you just have to work out what changes you need to make Word eat it.
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Your recommendation led me to the answer. Thank you for your assistance.
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