Re: Open a Microsoft Word Doc and Save as plain text file

I'm not aware of a pure-Perl solution for parsing MS Word documents. A search on http://freshmeat.net turns up a few programs that can do the conversion, or you can use blue_cowdawg's suggestion of Win32::OLE if you're on a Windows system with Word (and you trust the documents not to do anything nasty, like take over the computer where your script is running).

File::Type can help you identify the type of the file.

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Re^2: Open a Microsoft Word Doc and Save as plain text file by soon_j (Scribe) on Jun 08, 2006 at 15:45 UTC
Thank you monks for your inputs. I found this code from CGI to be very good in determining the type of file `my $cgi = new CGI; my $file = $cgi->param('file'); my $type = $cgi->uploadInfo($file)->{'Content-Type'};` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Open a Microsoft Word Doc and Save as plain text file by sgifford (Prior) on Jun 08, 2006 at 17:50 UTC
Ah, yes, good idea. It does rely on the client to identify the document, though; if the user's Web browser doesn't know what the file is, it will probably be reported to you as `application/octet-stream` or `text/plain` if it smells like text. -- sgifford's Web page	[reply]