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Re: NSCharacterSet Parsing MS Word 97 files? <Newbie>
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Re: NSCharacterSet Parsing MS Word 97 files? <Newbie>


  • Subject: Re: NSCharacterSet Parsing MS Word 97 files? <Newbie>
  • From: j o a r <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 19:08:56 +0200


On 4 jul 2005, at 18.37, Vince Ackerman wrote:

I need to parse lengthy MS Word 97 documents. I have read the file in as an NSString but need to filter out all the extraneous characters except the actual text. I need to see all the standard keyboard characters and (hopefully/eventually) parse out the information into a Core Data database. I can achieve this using Word to save the file as straight Text, but don't want the end user to have to do this to each document every time. I was hoping there was a way to do it programmatically without a lot of work.

Is there a way to copy this string to another string with NSCharacterSet or NSScanner? Or perhaps a better way to open and read the file into a NSString without the MSWord encoding? I don't fully understand what NSCharacterSet will filter, and I don't want to alter the actual visible text in the file.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Perhaps someone's got a snippet of code so I don't have to re-invent this wheel?

I'm a total amateur, so go easy on me.... : )

This might be of a big help to you:

-[NSAttributedString initWithDocFormat:documentAttributes:]

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSAttributedString.html#// apple_ref/doc/uid/20000167-BAJJHABH>

j o a r



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