hi friends, Can any one help me how to read MSWord files using IO Streams. When i have tried it is giving in binary format. I have used both byte and character streams. Thanks in advance ramesh
Mirko Froehlich
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Ramesh, I am not sure I understand what exactly you are trying to do. MS Word uses a proprietary binary file format, so unless your application uses a special Java library to deal with Word files (if this exists, but I am pretty confident that it does), you won't be able to do anything with these files. -Mirko
Originally posted by Ramesh Rao: hi friends, Can any one help me how to read MSWord files using IO Streams. When i have tried it is giving in binary format. I have used both byte and character streams. Thanks in advance ramesh
Cindy Glass
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Why don't you post this on a MicroSoft forum.
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Jim Yingst
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It occurs to me that (a) StarOffice is supposed to be able to read and edit MS Word files, and (b) the source code for StarOffice is freely available at www.openoffice.org. I don't know how easy it might be to find what you're looking for, but it seems like a good place to try. Good luck.
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Ramesh Rao
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Mirko Froehlich, Actually i am trying to extract data from word file and use it and use it for appending this text other files.
Jim, Thank u for giving for this information. i will try it and let u know.
Ramesh
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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