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Re: Perl to read word(.doc) file
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 02, 2003 at 05:45 UTC 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

for my $file (@ARGV)
{
    system( 'abiword', '--to=html', $file )
        and warn "Cannot convert $file\n";
}

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    If you're planning to ask about Excel files tomorrow, save the rest of us some time and try Gnumeric.

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Re: Perl to read word(.doc) file
by doru (Initiate) on Dec 02, 2003 at 16:10 UTC
    Try wvWare (http://wvware.sourceforge.net/)
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