Hello Anonymous Monk,

I have never done this before so I can not really tell you how to do extract the data from a word file and process them.

But recently another question was similar to yours, not exactly but similar. Where I created a short script of exporting nth excel files, convert them, combine them and store them to '*.csv' file. At that point you can easily convert them back to excel or word. I guess about Word I do not know. More information can be found at writing after parsing. I think this a good starting point to see how the process can be done.

But I am curious why you are not using Google first to check what information you can found and continue from there.

With a really quick search I found Win32::Word::Writer, Text::Extract::Word etc...etc...

But is also depends on what operating system you are using? (Windows, Linux, Mac)...The same solution does not apply to all.

Well I think you currently have more than enough information and questions to start your search. If I was you I would create a sample of code and try a few attempts based on the modules that you can find online. Coding is about searching, testing failing again and again until you make it.

So go ahead start coding, and when you need some help your code you can ask a question again here.

I hope my answer provides you with enough information, and links to get you started.

Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!

In reply to Re: Merge Excel data with Word Template by thanos1983
in thread Merge Excel data with Word Template by Anonymous Monk

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