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title: "Perl in the office"
date: 2014-01-17 00:36
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categories: Perl, Office, Dirty Hacks
categories: [Perl, Office, Dirty Hacks]
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Today Perl helped me again to solve a boring office problem. The colleagues gave me a presentation with almost 1000 slides. It was designed for a theatre subtitles. The slides was simple. Just a sentence per each slide. Only the colors was mistaken. Not black on white but white on black. My colleagues spent hours in googling for M$ Office bulk color change function. Then something blinked in me. **It was Perl's Regex {}**.
The new open Office formats - [ODF](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument) and [OOXML](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML) are both zipped XML files, binary media content and files with metadata. I converted the presentation to odt (It was on the old crappy ppt) and then, just
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{% codeblock lang:bash %}
lin:/tmp/presentation$ unzip slides.odp
Archive: slides.odp

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