Hi-

I'm attempting to use a COM object that prints to a console (ActiveState v.5.8.1 on XPpro in a plain old cmd window), but it's getting printed with extra whitespace, like so: 
G o o d b y e   c r u e l   w o r l d

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The same bit of (translated) VB code doesn't have this problem, so I'm thinking it's something I need to tell Perl how to do, maybe explain to it that I'd like stdout to be wide characters or something. I've rtfm (somewhat), I tried just about every combination of letters for -C switch to perl.exe...what else can I try? My Perl looks something like this: 
use Win32::OLE;
$obj = Win32::OLE->new("Logger") or die;
$obj->Output("Goodbye cruel world");

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In VB, it was this (I apologize for befouling the monastery): 
Dim obj
Set obj = CreateObject("Logger")
obj.Output("Goodbye cruel world")

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Thanks very much,
Alex

In reply to Extra spaces in COM strings to stdout? by Anonymous Monk

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