use warnings;
use strict;
# we are going be working with MS Word Objects
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);

# some sites advise me to use these but I am not sure
# why we need them and can't really understand 
# win32::OLE. If there is a way to decipher them I am happy
# to know
# use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
# use Win32::OLE::Enum;

use CGI; # we'll be having some HTML writing

my $text = "";
my $directory = "../sample_folder";
opendir (DH, $directory) || die "can't opendir $directory: $!";
# test whether the item returned by grep is a file and its name does not start with "_"
# because there is one redirect input which start with "_"
my @dir_list = grep { (/^EN-US_.+/) && -d "$directory/$_" } readdir(DH); 

# we are working with Word application
my $Word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit');

my $root = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\parent_folder";
foreach (@dir_list){
    
	# extract the language abbreviation
	m/^EN-US_(.+)$/i;
	
	my $doc = "$root\\EN-US_$1\\sample_doc.doc";
	
	$Word->Documents->Open("$doc") || die("Unable to open $doc ", Win32::OLE->LastError());
	$Word->{Visible}= 0; # we don't need to see Word in an active window

	# get the first table
	my $table = $Word->ActiveDocument->Tables(1);
	
        # $table -> Select(); # do I need to select?
	$text = $table->Cell(1,1)->Range->{Text};
	print "*$text*";
	
	
	#my $language = lc($1);
	
	# Prepare OUT_FOOTER file
	#open(OUT_FOOTER, "> $directory/updates/footer_$language.html") || die("can't open $directory/updates/footer_$language.html for writing: $!");
	
	# close document and Word instance
	print "Closing document and Word\n";
	$Word->ActiveDocument->Close();
	
	close OUT_FOOTER;
}
$Word->Quit;
closedir DH;