Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] MS Word files and MacPerl

thanks grant for the suggestion

my problem is that the user will most likely be using a pc -
it looks like i will forget about this for the moment i think

thnaks again
../allan

"[email protected]" wrote:
> 
> Allan,
> 
> A while back, I looked into this (parsing Word files with MacPerl). At that
> time, it seemed the best way to do this on a Mac would be to have your Perl
> script run an AppleScript to make Word save the file as html (because a text
> file won't include the formats you're interested in).
> 
> The MacPerl/AppleScript combo seemed easy & powerful. Unfortunately, I have
> never learned much AppleScript, so I didn't get far.
> 
> Regards,
> Tim Grant
> DBA, Knowledge Express
> 
> >>../allan
> 
> >> does someone know if it's at all
> >>possible to actually read a microsoft word file and convert
> >>it to some reasonable text format?