reading a word file and outputing the result

[sltassassin01]

I'm writing a program in visual c++ 6.0. I have a microsoft word file that contains data. I need my program to open the word file, read from the file and output certain parts of the file into a database. I tried opening the file like i do with text files but it doesn't seem to work unless the file was created by c++ itself. It produces nonsense as an output. Could someone please help me out here.

 

[josefl]

Word files are formatted, you need to convert it to text format first. This can be done either by automating word or by some word interpreter. I think it's rather simple in VB. Or you can save the word file as text directly.

 

[sltassassin01]

I tried saving it as a text file but most of the contents of the file was lost and stuff such as returns and tables were messed up. Is there a way to convert word to a text file without destroying the data

 

[melbolt65]

I don't know much about word conversion but did you try to do this in binary mode?
fstream outfile("output.txt" ios:ut|ios::binary);
you will need to use outfile.read() and outfile.write() rather than outfile << data; I don't think this will do exactly what you were looking for but if you figure out how the conversion works it may be useful. Marshall Leitem

 

[melbolt65]

I don't know much about word conversion but did you try to do this in binary mode?
fstream outfile(&quot;output.txt&quot; ios:ut|ios::binary);
you will need to use outfile.read() and outfile.write() rather than outfile << data; I don't think this will do exactly what you were looking for but if you figure out how the conversion works it may be useful.
Marshall Leitem

 

[melbolt65]

I forgot to include this in my last post, the reason you are getting a bunch of junk is because you are probably reading a binary file into some sort of character or string. that is why binary must be used to preserve the original file contents. anything that isn't in plain text such as a notepad file must be done in binary mode, such as a .exe file it must be done in binary mode as i stated in my last post. hope this helps Marshall Leitem