I want to write a PERL script to read through a MS Word document and
return a line number where a match occurs.

The problem is the binary line breaks. How can I open the file into an
array that can be read line by line.  I've tried out splitting on \m and
a few others but I'm not sure what WORD uses for its line breaks.

Any help?

Thanks

I know nothing about the internals of Word documents, but if I wanted to
solve this problem I would look at a dump of a file to see what is used
for the line breaks and other control characters. Debug is your friend.

Cheers,

Jim

: I want to write a PERL script to read through a MS Word document and
: return a line number where a match occurs.

: The problem is the binary line breaks. How can I open the file into an
: array that can be read line by line.  I've tried out splitting on \m and
: a few others but I'm not sure what WORD uses for its line breaks.

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997 17:37:17 -0600, Michael Farris

Don't try and treat a Word document like a text file, because its not.
Save as text, then run through it, or look at the LAOLA docs for some
more info.

Mike

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/laola.html

It may help.
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WebSite Automation/SurfnetUSA Technical Support

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