Getfile and Microsoft Word doc s

[ken gray]

I need to be able to search and extract phrases within a bunch of MS Word docs but 'getfile' doesn't seem to be able to pull them apart. Is there a function for doing this?

[Gintaras]

Don't know what is "pull them apart" in English.

If getfile error, close Word.

If don't know how to search because it is binary etc, get from where text begins and convert UTF-16 to UTF-8.

Macro Macro1195

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str s.getfile("C:\Users\G\Documents\Notes.doc" 3000)
;s.findreplace("" " " 32)
s.ansi
out s

Or use Word type library functions, if possible.

[ken gray]

"pull apart" you pretty much figured out what it means.
I have a doc that is several pages long and here's what I get when I do a standard 'out' on it only you can't see the unicode chars in the forum :?

ࡱ

I tried the ansi but it's about the same. i may have to go to PowerGrep.

thanks.

[Gintaras]

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;str s.getfile("C:\Users\G\Documents\Notes.doc" 3000)
str s.getfile("C:\Users\G\Documents\Notes.doc" 0)
;s.findreplace("" " " 32)
s.ansi(s _unicode s.len/2)
s.findreplace("" " " 32)
out s

[ken gray]

thanks, I gave it a shot and it's still not working. prob should use the API.

thanks.

[ken gray]

I took out the line

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s.ansi(s _unicode s.len/2)

and it works great now. Ugly when it's out'ed but I can find the text!!!!