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Extracting text with special characters from MS Word to VB.NET

Zones: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Visual Studio .NET 2003

Tags: vb.net

I am trying to automatically extract text from Word files (see attached example) and into VB using the below code snippet. The data contains special characters; my main concern is the inequality signs (such as as greater or equal sign, unicode hex 2265).

The problem is that when the text is pulled from the Word file and turned into a string, the special characters are lost... either they are turned into a square or they are "converted down", ie: The greater than or equal sign is turned into the greater than sign.

My goal is to extract the contents of the Word file into a manageable string that I can further parse without losing the special characters. I would prefer to do this without using Microsoft.Office.Interop -> richtextbox because it seems that it is very hard to manage.

Please use the attached Word file as example.

         
             Dim filepath = "c:\file.doc"
    dim currentline as string
    Dim currentfilelocation As SeekOrigin = 0
    Dim fs As New FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
    Dim d As New StreamReader(fs)
    currentline = d.ReadLine()

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Test-file.doc (26 KB) (File Type Details)

Test file containing greater than or equal char

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Zone: Microsoft

Question Asked By: PaulNovel

Solution Provided By: PaulNovel

Participating Experts: 1

Solution Grade: A

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