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March 8th, 2004, 01:29 PM

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How to make stream reader read doc files?

I want to make my stream reader read doc files as plain text.

So that i find if doc contains searched string.

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March 8th, 2004, 01:32 PM

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A word document is a word document- You would need to convert it to plain text and then search it.

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March 10th, 2004, 10:28 AM

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did it :)

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