I am getting the below error when I try to open an excel file from the current directory however when I try to give the path of the directory then It's working fine. Can some one pls help on how to open an excel file from the current directory i.e. path Independent !!

I am getting the below error when I try to open an excel file from the current directory however when I try to give the path of the directory then It's working fine. Can some one pls help on how to open an excel file from the current directory i.e. path Independent !! 

# get already active Excel application or open new
my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')
|| Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');  

# open Excel file
#my $dir = "E:\\Automation Related\\Perl Scripts - ALL\\IMS_debugging\
+\Excel\\";
my $excelfile = 'UE_NW_Parameters.xlsx';
#my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open($dir.$excelfile)
my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open($excelfile)
  or die Win32::OLE->LastError();

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In reply to Getting an exception while reading excel file using Win::OLE from a current directory by rockyurock

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