I am attempting to read an MS Word document. The test file contains the text: Line 1, (blank line), Line 2, (blank line). The call to "GetObject" returns undef and $! is empty.

I am running Strawberry Perl 5.24.1 on Windows 10 with Win32::OLE version 0.1712 (the latest version according to metacpan). This should be very straightforward, but I cannot see what I am missing here. TIA for any suggestions. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Enum;

my $document   = Win32::OLE->GetObject("C:\\tmpx\\test.docx") or die "
+GetObject failed: $!\n";
my $paragraphs = $document->Paragraphs();
my $enumerate  = new Win32::OLE::Enum($paragraphs);

while(defined(my $paragraph = $enumerate->Next())) {
    my $text = $paragraph->{Range}->{Text};
    $text =~ s/[\n\r]//g;
    $text =~ s/\x0b/\n/g;
    print "$text\n";
}

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In reply to Win32::OLE->GetObject Fails on MS Word Document by roho

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