Re: Accessing Meta data from MS WORD

in reply to Accessing Meta data from MS WORD

Well a .docx file is actually just an archive file containing the metadata that you speak of. In Perl it is possible to access an archive file, extract the metadata (which would be a .xml file), and then you can parse the .xml file for what you need. These tasks are accomplished with specific Perl modules that can be found on CPAN.

Comment on Re: Accessing Meta data from MS WORD

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: Accessing Meta data from MS WORD by tobyink (Canon) on Aug 07, 2012 at 16:13 UTC
... assuming of course that the file in question is in Microsoft's OpenXML format. Older versions of Word used the proprietary binary ".doc" format, which is still quite frequently used. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom