Re: [Wvware-users] Doc Character Count Using WV

[Dom L. <ci...@ho...>]

The information that wvSummary uses comes from the MSWord DOC summary 
streams - i.e. MSWord wrote in its file format that there were N characters 
and X words in the document. We're just outputting what MSWord saved, 
basically.

If you want to get a better character and word count, use the wvText utility 
and the 'wc' program. It'll do an ok job in most situations. Because MSWord 
is a dynamic reflow engine, we'll never get the line and page counts 100% 
all of the time no matter what we do.

Hope that this helps,
Dom


>From: "Ajit Sadasivan" <aj...@sp...>
>Reply-To: "Ajit Sadasivan" <aj...@sp...>
>To: <wvw...@li...>
>Subject: [Wvware-users] Doc Character Count Using WV
>Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:28:25 -0400
>
>Hi,
>
>                         I am trying to use the wv utility to
>count the number of characters in a word document.We use
>the DocCount as our reference.
>
>                    What we are doing is parsing the text
>file  generated by wv.In addition to the ASCII characters,
>we need to take into account the following while doing the count.
>(1)Blank Lines
>(2)Spaces
>(3)Tabs
>(4)Hard Returns
>(5)Headers and footers every appearance
>
>      But the text file created by wv has some inconsistencies
>in how the above is handled.For example it adds a Line feed and
>three spaces to each line.How do I disable that ?
>WV also adds a line feed and around 26 spaces for each tab in the
>original word document.Even after removing that the word count
>doesn't tally.So we would like to know what are all the other
>changes which WV makes in the generated txt file.
>
>In there any way we could disable that in wv itself ?
>
>With Regards
>Ajit.S
>

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