Welcome to a new Module! Document::Info v0.01 - Determine the file type of office documents. (Currently mainly, cough, supported: MS Excel, MS Powerpoint and MS Word.) DESCRIPTION The module tries to figure out the document type of Office files. It utilizes OLE::Storage to determine the file type of Windows documents. The module is in a very early state. Along with it comes the little demo application "lfile". If Document::Info cannot yield the documents type it simply utilizes the well known file(1). I'd enjoy your feedback about the package hierarchy "Document::Info" and like especially to know if you regard the module being useful at all. EXAMPLE use Document::Info; if ( $Info=Document::Info->new($fileName) ) {; # $Info constructed, that means something has been determined. # Fetch the currently supported properties. $type = $Info -> getType ( ); $rev = $Info -> getRevision ( ); $os = $Info -> getOS ( ); if ( $type eq $Info->cMSExcel() ) { # Do something. Note: when checking a type or an operating System # always use the string constants like cMSExcel(). } if ( !$revision ) { # revision not determined. } } else { # Document type could not be determined. } LOCATION Document-Info-0.01.tar.gz is to be found at your favorite CPAN site in my directory, something: CPAN/modules/by-author/Martin_Schwartz/ or at: http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/perl/