> I have a bunch of rtf documents that I need to be able to work with on my
> linux box. I want to convert them to text and still be able to have
the white
> space. At any rate I tried the before mentioned module and this was my
> code...
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use RTF::TEXT::Converter;
> my $object = RTF::TEXT::Converter -> new ( Output => \*STDOUT );
> while ( <> ) {
> $object -> parse_stream( $_ );
> }
>
> this is my output....
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups]$ ./convert.pl nov.rtf
> Can't open '{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss
> Arial;}}{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;}{\stylesheet{\fs16\lang1033
\snext0
> Normal;}}
> ' (No such file or directory) at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/RTF/Parser.pm
> line 34, <> line 1.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
'parse_stream' appears to take a filehandle, I believe you are looking
for 'parse_string'.... Or you could pass *STDIN to parse_stream and drop
the while loop.
HTH,
http://danconia.org
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