DateSerial is not an OLE function (there is not such thing as an OLE function anyways, they are all methods on an object), it is a builtin VBScript function. You cannot access it from Perl as far as I know. However, you can emulate the function using Win32::OLE like this: 
  use Win32::OLE::Variant;

  sub DateSerial {
      my($year,$month,$day) = @_;
      return Variant(VT_BSTR, "$month/$day/$year")->As(VT_DATE);
  }

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This will only work if you are using the English locale settings; otherwise the string format of the date may be different. You can force the locale used by Win32::OLE to English like this: 
  use Win32::OLE::NLS qw(:DEFAULT :LANG :SUBLANG);

  my $english = MAKELCID( MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL) );
  Win32::OLE->Option(LCID => $english);

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In reply to Re: DateSerial Win32::OLE by jand
in thread DateSerial Win32::OLE by Dharma Karma

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