Thank you for your comments.
This is an area I have never been to before so I am having trouble understanding the implications of what you have said. For example "you have to create your DSN in two locations:" sadly means nothing to me but I guess something may need to be done to the line
my $dsn = 'driver=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb);dbq='.$dbfi
+le;

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I have found that I do have odbccad32.exe and odbc32.dll in both the SysWOW64 and System32 directories. I am using Windows 10 OS.
I get the impression that I may have to do something so that the correct odbccad32.exe is used?
Is that correct and if so can you point me to some web page that has more 'clues'?

In reply to Re^4: Update: Using Perl to connect to an Access 10 database by merrymonk
in thread Update: Using Perl to connect to an Access 10 database by merrymonk

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