I'm working with a Delphi codebase where I need to extract the file path of a linked file in an OLE container. The container is saved on disk, and is openable with the methods TOleContainer.LoadFromFile(containerPath) and TOleContainer.DoVerb(ovShow), where Windows handles the rest and opens the linked file after showing a prompt to the user.

Now while that works as expected, I struggle to extract this file path without using these methods, as for example in a micro-service with no human interaction.

When you open the container saved on the disk with a text editor, most of the content is binary but you still can clearly read the file path in plaintext.

Is there a way to access the OLE linked file path without having to extract the path from the raw text of the container file?