siva2sadu:

That's really more of a Microsoft Word question than a perl question. However, I did a quick google search and turned up a bit of information. Specifically, the article How Do I Bring a Microsoft Word Table into a DataGridView? mentions that Word has a Tables collection of all tables in the document, and it shows a bit of C# code to read all rows in the table. So you should be able to convert that into perl without too much trouble. Here's a trimmed1 version of the code from the article:

// Get the first table of the Word Document
Word.Table firstTable = this.Tables[1];

// Loop over the rows in the table
foreach (Word.Row row in firstTable.Rows) {
   List<string> cellValues = new List<string>();
   foreach (Word.Cell cell in row.Cells) {
      string cellContents = cell.Range.Text;
      // Now cellContents has the text of the current cell...
   }
}

[download]

HTH...

...roboticus

Note [1]: I removed unnecessary stuff (i.e. Datagrid code, etc.) and it's untested, as well.

Update: Changed footnote to use superscript to remove bogus link (used square brackets originally).

In reply to Re: Parsing MS word tables using perl by roboticus
in thread Parsing MS word tables using perl by siva2sadu

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.