Reading all files

Hi,

I am trying to write a progam which will allow me to open any document (exe, damaged documents, jpeg) , and read any readable words. These readable words should be saved into a seperate text file.

Can anyone advise me in how I can do this ?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Windoz

How would you programatically define "readable words" ?

I have an old DOS program that does exactly that, but as jamie points out, you have to decide how you define "readable". The app I have is rather stupid and defines it as any three or more consecutive ASCII-coded letters, upper or lower case.

You can do it by just reading the whole file into an array and then sweeping through and capturing, for example, any group of 3 or more letters