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what did you do when using the terminal, and what did not work using perl ?
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command using in terminal:-<br />
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catdoc report1.doc&gt;report1.html<br />
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code:-<br />
my $catdoc='/usr/bin/catdoc';<wbr /><br />
my @Lines = ' catdoc -wa report.doc';<br />

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You need to use backticks instead of the single quotes when executing the command.<br />
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-263412"><span>my $catdoc = '/usr/bin/catdoc';</span>
<span>my @Lines = `$catdoc -wa report.doc`;</span>
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'catdoc -wa report.doc' is not what you said in &nbsp;the code snippet in your question. <a href="http:/codeSnippetPopup.jsp?csid=262783" rel="ugc">http:/codeSnippetPopup.jsp?csid=262783</a><br />
did you try<br />
my @Lines = `catdoc -wa sample.doc`;
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Did you get an error message? &nbsp;Did @Lines contain something you didn't expect?
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No i did not get any error messages<br />
can i try abiword<br />
which is best abiword or catdoc
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What did you get? &nbsp;Was there anything in @Lines? &nbsp;Was it different than you expect?
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i did not get anything <br />
the output was blank :(<br />

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Is sample.doc in the current directory when the script is run?
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yes its in the same dir where the script is
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hello <br />
i have installed catdoc on a ubuntu system<br />
i tried converting a doc to html using the terminal <br />
i worked great bu when tried using perl <br />
it did not work, am i missing some configurations<br />
the perl code is given below<br />
cheers<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-262783"><span>my @Lines = `catdoc -wa sample.doc`;</span>
</code></pre>
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hello 
i have installed catdoc on a ubuntu system
i tried converting a doc to html using the terminal 
i worked great bu when tried using perl 
it did not work, am i missing some configurations
the perl code is given below
cheers

converting doc to html using catdoc and perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages with over 25 years of development. Perl 5 runs on over 100 platforms from portables to mainframes and is suitable for both rapid prototyping and large-scale development projects.  Perl gained widespread popularity as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripting language, in part due to its regular expression and string parsing abilities. In addition to CGI, Perl is used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applications.