I have been able to tokenize a RTF document and then print it to another RTF document. My question is whether or not it is possible to keep the original formatting from the first document (font, font color, background color). There are somethings that are randomly colored in the document so keeping the formatting is important.

Here it the tokenizer code 

#!usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use RTF::Writer;
use Data::Dumper;
use RTF::Tokenizer;

die "usage: $0 input output\n" unless @ARGV == 2;

my $infile = shift;
my $outfile = shift;

my $tokenizer = RTF::Tokenizer->new();
$tokenizer->read_file($infile);

my ( $token_type, $argument, $parameter );

{
    # reduce bogus warnings
    no warnings 'uninitialized';
    

    # get past the header
    ( $token_type, $argument, $parameter ) =
    $tokenizer->get_token() until
    ($token_type eq 'control' and $argument eq 'par');
}

my @final;
while ($token_type ne 'eof'){
    ( $token_type, $argument, $parameter ) = $tokenizer->get_token();
    push @final, $argument if $token_type eq 'text';
}

my $rtf = RTF::Writer->new_to_file($outfile);
my @sorted = sort {
    my @fields_a = split / / , $a;
    my @fields_b = split / /, $b;
    chomp($a, $b);
    $fields_a[0] cmp $fields_b[0];
    } @final;
            
$rtf->prolog;
$rtf->print(\@sorted);
$rtf->close;

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In reply to Keeping RTF formatting when moving files by mdavies23

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