I am developing a simple Win32 application using Borland's bcc32 v5.5 free compiler.

I need to be able to access a number of word documents created using a VBA macro. I am really using Win32 for this just for fun and to learn.

However, I need to be able to access the word document extract the text (without formatting etc) and process the text using regular expressions.

Can someone please point me to a resource/technology that will address the word document access problem using c/c++ and not VC++.

thank you,
Paul Schofield