Hello,
thanks a lot for your reply
I just tried out your first section of codei.e. use Word
to save a .doc file as a .txt file
Here's the code:
 

sub save_doc_as_text {  
my ( $infile, $outfile ) = @_;  

print "\n$infile";
print "\n$outfile";

require Win32::OLE;   
my $word = Win32::OLE->new( 'Word.Application', sub {$_[0]->Quit;});  
error( "Can't create new instance or Word Reason:$Win32::OLE::LastErro
+r" ) unless $word;    
$word->{visible} = 0; 
my $doc = $word->{Documents}->Open($infile); 
error( "Can't open $infile, Reason:$Win32::OLE::LastError" ) unless $d
+oc;    
# wdFormatDocument wdFormatText wdFormatHTML    
$doc->SaveAs( { FileName => $outfile, FileFormat => $wdFormatText});  
+  
$doc->Close;   
undef $doc;    
undef $word;}

$inf="ole-word-demo-3.doc";
$outf="ole-word-demo-3.txt";
save_doc_as_text($inf,$outf);

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The file ole-word-demo-3.doc is located in the folder
in which I've stored the above perl script, and executed
it.Well no ole-word-demo-3.txt file gets created in that
folder at all.What could be the problem?
Also, I'm not sure what paras we need to pass to the
second subroutine(find and replace)
Actually I need to save a .doc file as a text file,then
tokenize the text file and process the words in it in some
way, then convert the .txt file to .doc again
Also(please treat this as an ignorant soul asking a silly
question) is there any remote possibility that a .doc
file can be made to open in a Tk text widget?
Thanx and regards

In reply to Re: Win32::OLE for MS-Word by perl_seeker
in thread Win32::OLE for MS-Word by perl_seeker

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