Christoph Bugel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2003-07-06 Ron Gidron wrote: > > Is there an API out there, ideally I would like to call it from Perl, > > that can help me grep for keywords on Microsoft word documents? > > Maybe try 'antiword'. It's a commandline utility that reads a m$word file > as input, and creates a nice ascii text file as output.
Another possibility, which may be not just as nice but equally workable for many grepping purposes, is strings(1). -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
