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Per Rtf to text conversion.

  • 29-06-2018 10:47AM
    #1
    TaytoMan69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭


    Hello all,

    I am trying to allow a file specified via the command line be converted from rtf to text but I keep getting the same error message.

    The cpan documentation is quite limited for this module but according to whatever I could find the code below should do what i need without an issue.

    #!/usr/bin/perl

    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use RTF::TEXT::Converter;


    my $object = RTF::TEXT::Converter -> new( Output => \*STDOUT );
    $object -> parse_stream(*STDIN);

    However, when running it I get the error.

    Couldn't open '*main::STDIN' for reading at /usr/local/share/perl5/RTF/Parser.pm line 233.
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  • #2
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,677 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    A filename on the command line won't make an input stream.
    Maybe something like 
    cat filename | perl rtf-to-text.pl
    might.


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