How to read and write into a word document.

[ybinds]

Hi,

I am working on a recruitment site and in that we have an option of cv upload. Either text, or word couments (.doc or .rtf) are allowed. I am able to upload the file successfully, but when I try to read that file and try to show in a textarea field I see some junk characters also getting displayed. Can anyone tell me what function should I use to suppress that junk and show only the text?

What I am doing is open the file in read mode, read the entire contents of the file and display it.

Thanks,

[drew010]

word files are not plain text so yes there will be a lot of unreadable characters in it. if you are on windows, you can use the com objects to manipulate word documents.
there may be some php classes/function out there to read word docs without com, but i havnt had to do this so ive never researched it. you may try checking in google or browsing sites like hotscripts for these types of scripts.