NAME
Win32::File::Summary - Perl extension read property informations from MS compound files. It reads also property informations from \"normal\" files. (The Properties in OpenOffice documents are directly read from the meta.xml file using the explanations from the following http://books.evc-cit.info/ch02.php#document-description-fig http://books.evc-cit.info/pr01.php#who-should-read-section)
SYNOPSIS
use Win32::File::Summary;
my $Prop = Win32::File::Summary->new($file);DESCRIPTION
The modul Win32::File::Summary can be used to get the summary informations from a MS compound file or normal (text) files. What are the summary information: For compound documents, e.g. Word, you can add Title, Author, Description and some other informations to the document. The same, but not all of them you can add also to normal (text) files. This informationes can be read and add in the Property Dialog under the Summary Tab. The module reads these informations.
FUNCTIONS
- new(file)
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This method is the constructor. The only parameter is the filename of the document which informations you want to get. - IsWin2000OrNT()
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This method returns 1 if the operating system currently used is Windows NT/2000/XP otherwise 0. - IsStgFile()
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This method returns 1 if that the file contains a storage object, otherwise 0. - Read()
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This method reads the property set and returns a refernce to a hash which contain the informations. - GetError()
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The GetError method returns the error message if there is one.
AUTHOR
Reinhard Pagitsch, <rpirpag@gmx.at>
SEE ALSO
perl.
Adding support for OpenOffice and Star Office documents.
Adding suport to write summary informations.1 POD Error
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