Per Rtf to text conversion.

TaytoMan69

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.

daymobrew

A filename on the command line won't make an input stream.
Maybe something like

cat filename | perl rtf-to-text.pl

might.