Hi Monks,

I'm an absolute newbie to Perl and I'm trying to print the contents of a table (in a docx) into a tab-delimited or xlsx file, either is fine.

There are over 100 docx's that have tables in them with identical delimiters ("Version History", "Table of Contents").

I can print the entire contents of the file to a .txt, but I can't yet get the data between the delimiters.

Any suggestions?

Thank you!



An update with all of the code I'm currently using: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE qw(in);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
use Win32::OLE::Variant;

$|=1;

sub Parse{

my $document_name = 'C:\TestPolicy.rtf';
my $word = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Word.Application')
    || Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application','Quit')
    or die Win32::OLE->LastError();
    
my $document = $word->Documents->Open($document_name)
    or die Win32::OLE->LastError();
    
my $paragraphs = $document->Paragraphs ();
my $n_paragraphs = $paragraphs->Count ();

my $outputfile = 'C:\testfile.txt';

open(INPUT, $document_name) or die "Failed to open $document_name\n";


while (<INPUT>){
        if ($_ =~ /HISTORY/../TABLE/){
            open(OUTPUT, '>'.$outputfile) or die "Can't create $output
+file.\n";
            print OUTPUT "$_\n";
            close OUTPUT;
        }
    
    }
    close INPUT;



}

Parse()

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