Re: WIN32::OLE help

2008-08-14 Thread ekkehard . goerlach
Hello, if you just want to read data from an Excel file, you might consider the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module. I would think that using the OLE module always starts an Excel instance (visible or not) whereas the Spreadsheet module operates directly on the XLS file. Ekkehard

Re: Happy 20th Birthday, Perl!

2007-12-19 Thread ekkehard . goerlach
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, Perl ! Ekkehard "Howard Maher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18.12.2007 22:31 To perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com cc Subject Happy 20th Birthday, Perl! I don't know about you all, but I think that we all should take a m

rmtree and UNC paths

2007-02-13 Thread ekkehard . goerlach
Hello, with the build 819 from ActivePerl I recently received the error Directory //phchbs-w26786/wsdisk/tmp/a changed before chdir, aborting at ... when I try to remove a directory tree using an UNC path. I peeked into File::Path and saw that the routine checks for a race condition "where a

IO with utf16

2006-07-19 Thread ekkehard . goerlach
Hi, I try to read from a text file that is UTF16 encoded, modify the content and write write it out again. Reading is fine, but  I can not even make a simple copy: $f=$ARGV[0]; rename($f,"$f.orig"); open(IN,"<:encoding(utf16)","$f.orig"); open(OUT,">:encoding(utf16)","$f"); while () { print OUT