Hello wise ones. I have a script that opens a Word Document, saves it as a txt document. This code works fine. Does anyone know of a way to capture the text from the word document into an array without saving it to a txt document first? Below is the working code and as always I am open to any and all criticism both good and bad. Thanks in advance. 
  use Win32::OLE;
  use constant wdCRLF => 0;
  use constant wdFormatText => 2;
  use constant wdOpenFormatAuto => 0;
  $doc = "c:\\temp\\test.doc";
  $txtdoc = "$ENV{TEMP}\\reportmacro.txt";
  $Win32::OLE::Warn = 3;  
  my $wd_object = (Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Word.Application') ||
                     Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit'));
  
  ##### MAKE WORD APP VISIBLE(1), NOT VISIBLE(0) ####
  $wd_object -> {Visible}            = 1;
  
  $wd_object->Documents->Open({FileName => "$doc", ConfirmConversions 
+=> 0, ReadOnly => 0,
                                 AddToRecentFiles => 0, PasswordDocume
+nt => '', PasswordTemplate => '',
                                 Revert => 0, WritePasswordDocument =>
+ '', WritePasswordTemplate => '',
                                 Format => wdOpenFormatAuto, XMLTransf
+orm => ''});
  $wd_object->ActiveDocument->SaveAs({FileName => "$txtdoc", FileForma
+t => wdFormatText, LockComments => 0,
                                        password => '', AddToRecentFil
+es => 1, WritePassword => '',
                                        ReadOnlyRecommended => 0, Embe
+dTrueTypeFonts => 0,
                                        SaveNativePictureFormat => 0, 
+SaveFormsData => 0,
                                        SaveAsAOCELetter => 0, Encodin
+g => 1252, InsertLineBreaks => 1,
                                        AllowSubstitutions => 0, LineE
+nding => wdCRLF});
  $wd_object->ActiveDocument->Close();

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