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Re: Word parser

To: REALbasic NUG <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Word parser
From: Norman Palardy <palardyn at shaw dot ca>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:38:41 -0700
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On Feb 28, 2005, at 9:17 AM, Joshua Coventry wrote:

nobody? :-(
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Joshua Coventry

On 28 Feb 2005, at 07:24, Joshua Coventry wrote:
has anyone ever tried creating a microsoft word .doc file format parser for realbasic's editfield control ? I know an RTF parser has been made before...
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Joshua Coventry

Sorry ... no

Native word files are as close to impossible to read as you can get because of the OLE file format.
It's simply under documented and also no help from MS to get at it.
You could probably extract the code from OpenOffice but that's actually a lot of work.

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