Re: Extracting *.doc data

2001-03-19 Thread Philip Newton
Roee Rubin wrote: > Is there a way to extract data out of *.doc ms-word document NOT using > activex. Does that include OLE? If not, then Win32::OLE is probably the easiest way to get at the data. Alternatively, you could read the document into another word processor using its import filter and

Extracting *.doc data

2001-03-19 Thread Roee Rubin
Hello, Is there a way to extract data out of *.doc ms-word document NOT using activex. I am trying to find a solution to transform a word document into a plain text document that will be portable to linux servers as well as win32. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Roee Rubin Irubin Consul

Re: template problem

2001-03-19 Thread Joe Schell
Charles Pelkey wrote: > > Ok, maybe I did not explain this properly... > I want the text inside the braces to be replaced with the value of the named > variable: > - > Example script: > > #!/web/perl/bin/perl > use CGI qw/:standard/; > > $Full_Name = param('Full_Name'); > $E

Re: resetting the cpan install

2001-03-19 Thread Joe Schell
Christopher Hahn wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am wanting to restart the install of the CPAN > module. > > Basically, I pointed it at an bad location for the > .cpan directory, but trying to reinstall it, I cannot > get it to ask me those initial questions again. > > (The insteractive install ph

Re: Newbie question

2001-03-19 Thread Scott F
There is no sure way to tell if the recipient is able to read HTML or not. If they cannot, the resulting email can be hard to read. Possibilities include: - asking a user which they would prefer and then sending based on response. - including a link to a Web-page were they can see the email

RE: Newbie question

2001-03-19 Thread Peter Guzis
Ask them Peter Guzis Web Administrator, Sr. ENCAD, Inc. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.encad.com -Original Message- From: Sharon Tiroff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 1:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Newbie question Hi List! Right now I am sending HTML e

Newbie question

2001-03-19 Thread Sharon Tiroff
Hi List! Right now I am sending HTML e-mails, but what those users cannot receive HTML e-mail? Does anyone know how to tell if a user cannot receive HTML e-mail and then send those a plain/text e-mail instead? Thanks in advance! Sheri ___ Perl-Win32-

Re: [OLE] Help running WinWord

2001-03-19 Thread Ian . Stewart
Hi Stephen, I've run into this on occasion myself.  I can tell you what is happening.  As to why, that's anybody's guess... The error I normally get is:         -2147417848         The object invoked has disconnected from it's clients I have yet to identify the true cause of thi

[OLE] Help running WinWord

2001-03-19 Thread Stephen Morley
I wonder if some of the expert OLE users could comment on what problem I'm having. I'm trying to write a small server which finds .doc files, opens them, saves as .rtf, and then closes the file. Easy enough you'd think! Anyway, it works one or twice, or even a half dozen times, but eventually it

Re: template problem

2001-03-19 Thread Charles Pelkey
Ok, maybe I did not explain this properly... I want the text inside the braces to be replaced with the value of the named variable: - Example script: #!/web/perl/bin/perl use CGI qw/:standard/; $Full_Name = param('Full_Name'); $E_Mail = param('E_Mail'); open (TMPL, "/pat

Re: PerlCheck Program

2001-03-19 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Dirk Bremer wrote: > > Here is the latest version of my PerlCheck program with some new features and my >first shot at POD documentation. Use it in good > health and give me any suggestions. My suggestion would be to get a free website and store it there for download and just post a change not

RE:POD Format

2001-03-19 Thread John Cope
> From: "Dirk Bremer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: POD Format > > I am interested in adding POD-format documentation to my scripts. > The camel book does not mention how to create POD and what the > formatting rules are. Where can I find a guide to formatting POD? > perldoc perlpod

Help with PerlScript

2001-03-19 Thread John.F.Kennedy
Hi all, I need help with the PerlScript below . I'm trying to connect to a SQL server 7 database with out using a DNS. Could someone pleas help. my $sql = "SELECT * FROM Call_Item_Detail_local "; my $conn = $Server->CreateObject("ADODB.Connection"); $conn->Open(<

Re: Win32::FileOp possible problem on Windows ME?

2001-03-19 Thread Marcus
On 18.03.01 at 11:51 Jenda Krynicky wrote: >Does this cause the same error? > > use Win32::FileOp; > print BrowseForFolder 'Test'; I sent the user on Windows ME a Perl2Exe generated executable with the above code, and they got: Bff_test has caused an error in SHELL32.DLL Bff_test wil

RE: Listing Excel OLE Methods & Properties

2001-03-19 Thread Cornish, Merrill
Michael, Thanks for the pointer. This is a much better reference than I was able to find on the Microsoft site. At first, I wondered if it would do me any good whatsoever. Everytime I worked down the object hierarchy to ask for the available properties or methods, I would get a blank page. Un