Re: parsing table .doc

There is a command line tool that will dump Word documents for you such that they are nice to read (tables and all), I am sorry that I can find it atm. I did look. But I suggestion you could start with this. I suspect this will be nicer for you to parse. That said, Word docs are XML these days, so you the advice to not parse *ML with regular expressions still applies; that said, you likely can use any number of the scraper tools on CPAN.

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Re^2: parsing table .doc by marto (Cardinal) on May 31, 2020 at 10:23 UTC
"That said, Word docs are XML these days" Docx (OOXML) files are compressed archives, containing XML among other things. Doc files are a proprietary binary format.	[reply]
Re^2: parsing table .doc by IB2017 (Pilgrim) on May 31, 2020 at 10:25 UTC
Please note that I am talking about .doc and not .docx. Parsing the same table in .docx works like a charm (but I can not convert/upgrade all files to .docx). The above is the best I could come out with to extract tables from .doc. It just misses a clear identification of end-of-row. But since I can easily spot this end-of-row if I know the number of columns, there must be a way to automate this. All my attempts with regex failed though.	[reply]