Here is the complete script. I'm running it using ActiveState ver 5.6.1 on NT 4.0 with Exchange Server 5.5.

#!\perl\bin\perl.exe -w

use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::OLE; 
use Win32::OLE::Const; 

use Math::BigInt;

# Names have been changed to protect the innocent
my $server = "servername"; 
my $fname = "foo"; 
my $lname = "bar"; 
my $alias = "fbar";

# MAPI won't work without this
Win32::OLE->Initialize(Win32::OLE::COINIT_OLEINITIALIZE); 

# Load the constants 
my $CDO_CONST = Win32::OLE::Const->Load('Microsoft CDO.*Library'); 

# Create a MAPI session
my $MAPI = Win32::OLE->new('MAPI.Session'); 
die "Could instantiate MAPI Session: " . Win32::OLE::LastError() if (!
+ defined($MAPI)); 

# Create a temporary profile
my %LogonParms = ( 'ProfileInfo' => "$server\n$alias" ); 

# Logon to the MAPI session
$MAPI->logon(\%LogonParms); 
die Win32::OLE::LastError() if (Win32::OLE::LastError()); 

# Just a debug statement
print "USER: " . $MAPI->{CurrentUser}->Value . "\n"; 

# get the Contacts folder of the active mailbox
my $Contactsfolder = $MAPI->GetFolder($MAPI->{Inbox}->{Fields}->Item(0
+x36D10102),$MAPI->{Inbox}->{StoreID}); 

#get the contacts
my $contacts = $Contactsfolder->{Messages}; 

# Get the number of contacts found in the folder
my $ncon = $contacts->{'Count'};

# Just a debug statement
print "\tContacts - $ncon\n"; 

my ($con, $field1, $field2, $num, $email1, $x);

# Everything above this line works or at least I think it's working

# Iterate through the object
for my $x (1 .. $ncon)
{ 
    #get the contact object (I think)
    $con = $contacts->Item($x); 

    #print out the counter and the display name of the contact
    print "# $x - $con->{'DisplayName'}\n"; 

    ################################################
    #  Each of the follwing print statements print #
    #   out the name of the contact.  I'm trying   #
    #   get the email address.  Since I get the    #
    #   same output even though I'm using different#
    #   values, I'm very confused.  I may actually #
    #   be a simple syntax error but I'm not sure. #
    ################################################

    print "email is $con->{'Email1Address'}\n";     

    print "email is $con->{0x8083}\n"; 

    print "email is $con->{'0x8083'}\n"; 

    $field1 = "{0420060000000000C000000000000046}";
    $field2 = "0x8083";
    print "email is $con->{$field1 . $field2}\n"; 
    print "email is $con->{$field1 & $field2}\n"; 


    $field1 = Math::BigInt->new('0x0420060000000000C000000000000046');
    $field2 = "0x8083";
    print "email is $con->{$field1 . $field2}\n"; 
    print "email is $con->{$field1 & $field2}\n"; 

    $field1 = '&H3A16001E';
    $field1 =~ s/\&H/0x/x;
    print "email is $con->{$field1}\n"; 
    $num = eval $field1;
    print "email is $con->{$num}\n"; 
} 

exit;
[download]

I hope this thread is still alive...
Chris

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.