Howdy: I wrote a dll in VB and I have a perl script that is calling it. In the dll I build a Scripting.Dictionary and I want to return it to the Perl script. I cannot get this to work for the life of me. The following is the VB method that I a trying to call: 

Public Function returnScriptingObj1() As Object 

    Dim tot As Object
    
    Dim debugFile As Integer
    debugFile = FreeFile
    Open "d:\debug1.txt" For Output As #debugFile
    
    Print #debugFile, "TEST"
    Set tot = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary") 
    
    tot.Add "tom", "daddy" 
    tot.Add "Ginger", "mommy" 
    tot.Add "Caroline", "kiddy" 
    
    Close #debugFile 
    
    Set returnScriptingObj1 = tot 
    'returnScriptingObj1 = tot 
End Function

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The following is the Perl code: 
my $newObj = Win32::OLE->new("TestArray.PArray");
my $resultsArray; #= Variant(VT_BYREF, Variant(VT_EMPTY));
$resultsArray = $newObj->returnScriptingObj1();
print Dumper($resultsArray);<br>

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The following is the output from the perl code above:
$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'Item' => undef,
                 'Count' => 3,
                 'CompareMode' => 0
               }, 'Win32::OLE' );

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First is it possible to get the Scripting.Dictionary object back to the Perl script? If so, what is missing?
Please help...
Thanks, Tom

Edit: added <code> tags. larsen

In reply to Returning a VB ScriptingObject to Perl app by Anonymous Monk

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