Hello Monks,

I am new to the community. Not sure if this is the right place to post this question but I decided to try anyway.

I am trying to interface with the Bloomberg system to pull some data from it. The process works from a VBA script which invokes their API's. I am pretty sure the blpdatax.dll DLL implements the API calls.

I was trying to do the equivalent of the following VBA code in Perl: 

Dim objDataControl As BLP_DATA_CTRLLib.BlpData
Set objDataControl = new BlpData

Thusly:

my $bloom0 = Win32::OLE->new('BLP_DATA_CTRLLib.BlpData');
my $bloom1 = Win32::OLE->new('BlpData');

When I run the code, I get the:

Win32::OLE(0.1502) "Invalid Class String" error

I made sure that the .dll was registered with regsvr32.exe. If anyone has any code samples or any ideas on how to get past this error, I would great appreciate it.

In reply to Accessing Bloomberg API's via Win32::OLE by unk1911

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