I'm trying to find the occurrence information of a word in a .doc file using Win32::OLE. I know how to do the find the word part but I also want to know the page in which the word appears.

Say the test.doc contains the word 'perl' in page 1. The following code finds the word correctly but not the page number.

Can someone give me some hints? Thanks :) 
use strict; use warnings;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';

my $query = 'perl';
my $file = "E:/test.doc";

my $Word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit');
$Word->{'Visible'} = 0;
my $doc = $Word->Documents->Open($file) or die "Error opening the docu
+ment!\n";
my $paragraphs = $doc->Paragraphs() ;
my $enumerate = new Win32::OLE::Enum($paragraphs);

while ( defined (my $paragraph = $enumerate->Next()) ) {

    my $words = Win32::OLE::Enum->new( $paragraph->{Range}->{Words} );
        
        while ( defined ( my $word = $words->Next() ) ) {        
            my $text = $word->{Text};                
            if ($text =~ /$query/){
                        #$text->Select; $Doesn't work
            $paragraph->Select; #wrong page number.
                my $page_number = $Word->Selection->Information(wdActi
+veEndPageNumber);
                print "Found $text in Page $page_number!\n";          
+      
            }
        
        }
}

$Word->ActiveDocument->Close ;
$Word->Quit;

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==UPDATE==

Problem Solved

I've just found that by replacing the $paragraph->Select line with $word->Select , the code seems to be able to find the correct page number :)

In reply to Find occurence information on a word in a doc file using Win32::OLE by ZJ.Mike.2009

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