in reply to parsing word on non-windows platform

Sometimes low-tech just as effective and a lot simpler.

Just open the Word files in Word, hit "Save as...", and opt to save as .txt

Reload the files on the server and parse them.

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Re: Re: parsing word on non-windows platform
by MCS (Monk) on Jan 26, 2004 at 16:41 UTC

    yes but when you have many word documents, this starts to become tedious. "Laziness, Impatience and Hubris" make a good programmer ;-)

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      Had (apparently mistakenly) imagined that "recipes my uncle typed up" meant a reasonable number of documents. How many recipes can one uncle type? At ~20-seconds per document, open-save-close, that's 180 recipes in an hour, far inferior to the time to develop, test and implement a server-side solution. Probably inferior to the time to post a question and read silly replies! :-)
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        What would you rather do... doing tedious open-save-close for an hour or spend a day or two researching a better way to do it so I don't have to ever do that tedious open-save-close. This way when my uncle gives me yet more family recipes that he has typed up in word, I will have something already done and it will save time later.

        Besides, maybe I'll learn something along the way.

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