Reading Word attachments (with Rich Text Format) in Mail

Question

I have difficulty opening "Word email attachments" that contain "Rich Text Format" using my ipod touch under the MAIL function. For normal Word documents, I have no issue at all. Can anyone help here? Thank you.

Answer 1

RTF contains alot of extra formatting junk that you need to be aware of, depends what you want to do with the files afte reading them in but JAVA has its own RTF parser standard. Be warned its not full proof.....
import java.io.*;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit;
import javax.swing.text.Document; 
  try {
      FileInputStream stream = new FileInputStream("C:/Document.rtf");
      RTFEditorKit kit = new RTFEditorKit();
      Document doc = kit.createDefaultDocument();
      kit.read(stream, doc, 0);
      String plainText = doc.getText(0, doc.getLength());
      BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(plainText));
      String line = br.readLine();
      while (line != null) {
        StringTokenizer tok = new StringTokenizer(line, " ");
        while (tok.hasMoreTokens()) {
          System.out.print(tok.nextToken() + " ");
        System.out.println();
        line = br.readLine();
    } catch (Exception ex) {}