Re: Re: Searching MS Word Docs

Well, that's what the manual says. Once that you have the content of your file in a string, my advice is to bin2hex it and search words or sentences using the hex representation of it with ereg, as the word format is not plain binary, you will need to hex edit your doc file to know what you are looking for. A+ Alain On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:38:59PM -0600, Todd Williamsen wrote: > Alain, > > I am running the "rb" but its on a Linux box so I think its ignoring it > > -----Original Message----- > From: alain [mailto:alain@sonic.net] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 12:36 PM > To: Todd Williamsen > Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Re: Searching MS Word Docs > > > >From the manual - Last thing to read ;) > "Note: The mode may contain the letter 'b'. This is useful only on > systems > which differentiate between binary and text files (i.e. Windows. It's > useless on Unix). If not needed, this will be ignored. " > A+ > Alain > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:52:14AM -0600, Todd Williamsen wrote: > > Alain, > > > > I changed it from "r" to "rb" and it doesn't pick it up > > "Todd Williamsen" <todd@williamsen.net> wrote in message > > news:000a01c1b324$59e10c00$f6b2d83f@goofy1... > > > Alain.. > > > > > > That's fine... Hehe!! :) > > > > > > So would I just do a "rb" in the fopen statement then? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: alain [mailto:alain@sonic.net] > > > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:48 AM > > > To: Todd Williamsen > > > Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net > > > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Re: Searching MS Word Docs > > > > > > > > > Sorry, I didn't read all your posts, just the last one. If your > platform > > > is > > > not windoze, COM won't help you (neither ASP)... > > > You have to do a binary search in your Word file. > > > A+ > > > Alain > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:17:29AM -0600, Todd Williamsen wrote: > > > > That's great Alain... But as I previously posted its NOT windows, > and > > > if > > > > you read my post I have no idea how to use COM. > > > > > > > > So its not so easy > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: alain [mailto:alain@sonic.net] > > > > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:15 AM > > > > To: Todd Williamsen > > > > Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net > > > > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Re: Searching MS Word Docs > > > > > > > > > > > > If your server is win, it's pretty easy: Use COM. > > > > A+ > > > > Alain > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:45:22AM -0600, Todd Williamsen wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > > > To unsubscribe, visit: > > > > > http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php