Hello all, I would like to translate the following vb(a) code over to Perl but I have not had any success. I have read the doc on win32 and ole but I can not get this to work.

I have a COM DLL which has a method called RLVersion. The way I call it in VBA is the following: 

Set MyObject = CreateObject("RL.RLClass")
call MyObject.RLVersion(1,y)
msgbox(y)

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The 1 tells it the number of output arguements and y is obviously the output arguement. It passed back a 6 character string.

and this works fine.

Here is one of my many attempts at converting it to Perl. The WIn32::OLE works, but calling the RLVersion (method) does not.

use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
my $RL = Win32::OLE->new('RL.RLlass') or die "oops\n";
my $myoutput = $RiskLib->RiskLibVersion->Call(1);

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I would appreciate any help. I need to prove that this can work before I can start to learn perl and move completely away from vb/vbscript.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Stephen

In reply to Calling COM method by StephenLL

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