in reply to Parsing MS word tables using perl

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... } }

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).