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.
That is TOTALLY wrong, no offense... the Word document format is actually a structured-storage document composed of a tree of elements and each element is a list of text snippets (some used, some old noise) in a nonlinear linked list. If you simply do a "strings" on the file, you'll end up with a lot of unrelated text in apparently random order. Some of that text can even be from another unrelated document, or prior versions of the document (or template it was horked from). Seriously, if you want the text from a doc file, use IFilter. If you need a .Net version just say so. -- "I am Dyslexic of Borg. Resistors are fertile. Prepare to have your ass laminated." -- Dan Nitschke Marc C. Brooks http://musingmarc.blogspot.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
