in reply to Excel and variants

I guess you should test whether the $dateVar is a reference before you try to call the ChangeType(). This should be enough:

$dateVar = $dateVar->ChangeType(VT_BSTR)->Value() if (ref $dateVar);

You should also add a few eval {} blocks into your code and handle the exceptions gracefully.

Jenda
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Re: Re: Excel and variants
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 24, 2003 at 16:19 UTC
    That's the stuff I needed, thanks Jenda. Michael