>would someone know how to read text from microsoft >WORD, PPT and XLS files? i need a functionality to >allow users to upload these files, and then i want to >read the text from there (format is not important, i >just need the words used therein). I've used a C program, "catdoc", to parse MS Word files on Linux. You might look at the OLE::Storage module on CPAN. For XLS files, there's a couple of CPAN modules, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. I ran across another program that parses word docs last week, but I don't have the URL handy. _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list. To unsubscribe go to http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/subscribe/perl-unix-users
