Re: Re: Searching MS Word Docs
| From: | Todd Williamsen | Date: | Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:45:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Searching MS Word Docs | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.windows |
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So is there a way to search within the MS Word docs even though they are
binary, or do I need to look at ASP for this? I cannot run ASP on my
server, host says you can, but it doesn't run..
"B.A.T. Svensson" <B.A.T.Svensson@lumc.nl> wrote in message
news:27E647E5629ED211BF78009027289C6303C1B6C4@mail1...
> MS Word document are binary.
>
> From: Todd Williamsen
>
> >I have no idea if its ASCII formatted or not. I wonder if there is a way
> to
> >find out?
> >
> >
>
> >"Nicole Amashta" wrote in message
>
> >> OK, I am not exactly sure of the format of word docs off hand. But if
> they
> >> are an ascii format, you can just read through the file using PHP and
use
> >> regular expressions to search for the words. Just a suggestion.