I have tried my first attempt in Perl to use COM API function instead of using the VB but I find it so hard to do something simple in VB converted in Perl. I fail to simply find the way to query an object value. I am able to setup the link between the application that supports COM API using the following code but I cannot get any property value out. 
#! perl -w

use strict;
use FileHandle;
use Win32::OLE;

my $Class = "ValorLepComApi.T5KAEFactory";
eval {$LEP = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject($Class)};
        die "LEP not installed" if $@;

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In VB the following code works fine but I cannot get it converted to Perl 
For each PLACEMENT in Recipe.Placements
MsgBox PLACEMENT.PlacementPart.Refdes 
Next

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The above simple code will get all the values out of the object PLACEMENT.PlacementPart.Refdes but I am not able to get this written in Perl. I looked all over the internet but could not find any example. Only examples on how to excecute things like in Excel but not query objects values. Any good books on general Object orientated programming in Perl for dummies.

In reply to Query an object in Perl using Win32::OLE by juo

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