I want to display a word file and then extract the content and display it in a separate textarea. i want to do away with the formatting as well.

this is what i get when i get the read the text file using php

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this is the code

$fh = fopen($newname, 'r'); 
$contents => fread($fh, filesize($newname));
fclose($fh); unlink($newname); echo
"<br/>"; echo $contents;

how can i get rid of all these charecters.

Thanks