I've got the following code that loops through my Outlook inbox and saves out the attachments (shortened for brevity's sake: 

my $namespace = $outlook->GetNameSpace("MAPI");
my $folder = $namespace->GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox);

for ( my $i = 1; $i <= $folder->Items->Count; $i++ ) {

    for ( my $j = 1; $j <= $folder->Items($i)->Attachments->Count; $j+
++ ) {

        print "Saving " . $folder->Items($i)->Attachments($j)->FileNam
+e . " from \"" . $folder->Items($i)->Subject . "\"\n";

        $folder->Items($i)->Attachments($j)->SaveAsFile( "C:\\Download
+\\" . $folder->Items($i)->Attachments($j)->FileName );

    }

}

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Now, this works and all, but it seems like it could be cleaned up using foreach loops instead of those nasty index variables. I attempted various things like this: 

foreach my $item ( $folder->Items ) {

    foreach my $attachment ( $item->Attachments ) {

        print "Saving " . $attachment->FileName . " from \"" . $item->
+Subject . "\"\n";

        $attachment->SaveAsFile( "C:\\Download\\" . $attachment->FileN
+ame ) ;

    }

}

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I tried saving out the collections to other variables, to lists, I tried using curly brackets around the various properties, I even tried using this mysterious "in" operator that showed up in Win32::OLE, and that didn't work either. Anyone have suggestions?

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In reply to Foreach-ing an OLE Collection object by patgas

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