Hello Perl Monks, I have written a perl code in cygwin perl. Here i need to read the excel file for which i am using Win32::OLE. I have used Win32::OLE for perl in past on DOS/Windows. However, this the the first time in cygwin envt & i am facing some issues. Basically i am just not able to open/access the workbook. It dies with the error. My question is, would Win32::OLE work on cygwin evnt ? If so, are there any specific settings required to do that ? Below is the code that i have written. Note that the code & the excel file both are in the same directory. Help is much appreciated. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings FATAL => qw( all ) ;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Variant;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';

our $Excel = undef ;
my $file = 'template_001.xlsx' ;

$Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application') ||
   Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application');
   
$Excel->{DisplayAlerts}=0;  #0 is hide alerts

# Open File and Worksheet
my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open($file) or die "Can't open workbook\
+n" ; 
print ("The excel book is $Book\n") ;

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Original content restored above by GrandFather

Thanks Jim & Rob for your responses. The change i have to make is to provide the absolute path like below. 

my $file = 'c:\path\subpath\template_001.xlsx' ;

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This solved the problem. Previously as Jim pointed out i was specifying only the spreadsheet & assuming that the file would be picked up from the Cwd, but seem else-wise. This did solve the issue, however just for information purpose i have read at multiple places that Win32::OLE cannot be used on Cygwin domain. Is that true ?

In reply to Using Win32::OLE on cygwin by hardy004

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