Morning Monks I am trying to edit properties of office docs. Perl can use MS's dsofile addons to read and edit this. I can read them and have been trying to change em but no avail. The following is a we script to do this. BTW dsofile stuff is available from (http://sup­port.micro­soft.com/d­efault.asp­x?scid=kb;­EN-US;q224­351) if your interested. I think the setting section of my script might have a simple error I'm a little new. Any ideas from the monistry? Any help at this stage appreciated (this code modified from http://perlmonks.thepen.com/215118.html) I was hell happy to see it but it also don't quite work. (remember you need dsofile.exe first to do this). 
 
use Win32::OLE;
 
use File::Spec;
 
my $PropertyReader = Win32::OLE->new('DSOleFile.PropertyReader', 'Quit
+');
 
my $directory = "c:\\temp";
 
opendir(DNAME, $directory) || die "Unable to open the requested direct
+ory: $directory\n"; 
 
while( my $filename = readdir( DNAME ) ) {
 
next if ($filename eq '.' or $filename eq '..');
 
my $fullfilename = File::Spec->catdir($directory,$filename);
 
my $properties = $PropertyReader->GetDocumentProperties($fullfilename)
+ || die("Unable read file properties for '$fullfilename' ", Win32::OL
+E->LastError());
 
if (0 == 0) #ok i was playing
# if ( !$properties->{title} || length($properties->{title}) == 0)
{
  
$properties->SetProperty('title', "this one"; #why does this not work?
+??
  
print $properties->title;
 
} else {
 
 
print "File '$filename' --- Title property is set to '" . $properties-
+>{title} ."'\n";
 
 
} }
 
closedir(DNAME);

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Edited by boo_radley : closed code tag, removed breaks

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