Jon,
Its certainly a possibility. I wouldn't recommend it (what if someone adds
bookmarks to the documents with the same name as the tags you search for,
for example).
And (from memory), Word sometimes stores data that has subsequently been
deleted from the document.
In short, unless you are using a documented method of accessing an
application's data (meaning use Word, or a tool designed to use Word's
files, or write your own Word parser based on documentation about the Word
file format), I wouldn't suggest it.
Seeya
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I really appreciate all of the discussion on this topic and the many great
ideas. I have taken each suggestion and dug into it in depth.
Are there any issues if I just do a rename of the word doc from file.doc to
file.txt, then open the file as a text document and parse if for the data I
need? I know that the Word document format is not in strait ASCII text,
but
it appears that the data itself is.
I've opened the file and there's a lot of garbage here from Word, but the
data I need is just sitting there as text. I wrote a simple parser to read
the file and remove the extra characters that would cause problems...
mainly
chr(0), as it seems to be interpreted by the stream reader as an
end-of-file
character, but reading it like this seems to work file.
I'm reading for tags such as firstname:, lastname:, etc. They are all
there
and I really could care less about all of the Word stuff in the document.
I
just need the textual data.
Does anyone see any problems with this approach? Just read it as a .TXT
file and pull out the data.
Jon
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