[MacPerl-Modules] RTF::Parser

[bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)]

I need to convert some RTF files to text. MS Word mangles the
characters, so I need to try another way.

I downloaded RTF::Parser from CPAN. I converted the rtf2text script into
a droplet, and I found a few platform dependies in the file directory
separator, where "/char_map" is appended to the directory, and changed
them to ":char_map" (quick fix).

I enabled warnings. When I drop a simple RTF fille on the droplet, I get
a few warnings about "uninitialized values", but that's it. The script
never finishes, and no file is produced.

I used Chris Nandor's "installme" to install it. No complaints there. I
tried to run the ".t" script, and it says "ok" on all six. Yet, the
script in the example folder complains for every single data line I try
to feed it. (You're supposed to comment all datalines out, except one.).
The error message looks like:

    # unanalized data: '
    ...' at line 13 file


Maybe it's a CR vs. LF thing.

Has anybody gotten RTF::Parser, in particular the script rtf2text, to
work on MacPerl yet?

-- 
	Bart.

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