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Re: Removing Junk from Files

by idnopheq (Chaplain)
on Apr 12, 2001 at 15:19 UTC ( [id://72072]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in reply to Removing Junk from Files

Well, for your WinWord .doc files, try RTF::Parser. Some of your other file formats may well have parser modules available.

For quick and dirty, sometimes I'll save a file in html via the app and then html2txt it for the output. Lazy? Yes! But, I did automate the process via Win32::OLE.

Anywho, I'm changing employers today (hurrah!), so I can't provide my script just now.

HTH
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UPDATE: Check out iguane's WORD TO TEXT SIMPLY for the OLE stuff I mentioned.

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