Changing input separator while reading word file

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How to change the input separator when we read a word file using perl? By default it fetches all the content before a newline in the input. how can we change that like using $/ for reading txt files?

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Re: Changing input separator while reading word file by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 21, 2011 at 09:01 UTC
How to change the input separator when we read a word file using perl? By assigning to $/. But if you mean "MS Office Word .doc file" when you say "word file", that won't help you much, because those are binary files, and do not use a fixed record separator. For reading binary files, you should use binmode and read. Or a CPAN module which does all the hard work for you. Or don't use .doc files in the first place. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]

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Re: Changing input separator while reading word file
by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 21, 2011 at 09:01 UTC

How to change the input separator when we read a word file using perl?

By assigning to $/.

But if you mean "MS Office Word .doc file" when you say "word file", that won't help you much, because those are binary files, and do not use a fixed record separator. For reading binary files, you should use binmode and read. Or a CPAN module which does all the hard work for you. Or don't use .doc files in the first place.

Perl 6 - second systems done right

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