Yeah, that's exactly what I would expect. The VB method returned you an Object ... which gets wrapped by Win32::OLE as a Perl Win32::OLE object.

And as such it cannot be displayed by Data::Dumper.

You should use it as an object and that should be fine.

Try

  print $resultsArray->{tom};
or
  print $resultsArray ->Item(tom);
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and so forth. If you want to print all items in the Dictionary you may use the in() function contained in Win32::OLE :

use Win32::OLE qw(in);
foreach my $key (in $resultsArray) {
  print $key, " => ", $resultsArray->{$key}, "\n";
}
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