Hello all, Here is what I seek: My Perl reads an input file with about 80 rows of data. For each row I need to create a new DOCX with some of the data from that input row. All MS-WORD files go the same folder. I spent a couple of days trying to figure this out but couldn't. Please, could any of you provide me with a simple example of a very simple Perl pgm that automatically creates 2 docx files, enters in them a constant and a variable from the input file, and saves them, without the user's intervention. I can't save the docx files. I get error: "Can't call method "SaveAs" on an undefined value at DOC.pl line 18, <INPUTFILE> line 1."

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
my $path   = 'E:/MASAV/DOC/';
my $input  = 'input.txt';
my $in_file = $path . $input;
my $counter = 4534;
my $My_Word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application')
            or die "Problem with MS-WORD";
open (INPUTFILE, "<$in_file")|| die "Can not open $in_file\n";
while(<INPUTFILE>) {
chomp $_;
$counter++;
my $docx_name = $counter.".docx";
$My_Word->{'Visible'} = 0;
$My_Word->{DisplayAlerts} = 0;
my $My_Save = $My_Word->ActiveDocument->SaveAs(
{FileName => $docx_name, FileFormat =>   wdFormatDocument});
$My_Word->{ActiveDocument}->Close;
}
$My_Word->Quit;

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In reply to create .docx files (MS-WORD with WIN32::OLE) by gadi99

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