Greetings Monks. I am trying to use a windoze COM object to do some statistical analysis. The docs (which describe how to do things in C++ or Java, I'm not sure which) say I should create a new instance of the object. I do this like so 
$comobj = Win32::OLE->new("STATANPKG\.FDG3");

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and the debugger indicates that I've got a valid instance of the object. So far so good. Now I am supposed to initialize the object with a keyphrase. When I try to do it like this 
$comobj->Init('the quick brown fox');

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It doesn't work (yes, I've insured it's the correct keyphrase). The docs say the method is supposed to be ivoked using the following call 
void FDG3::Init(const wchar_t *keyphrase) //throw (Exception)

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So I'm wondering if maybe wchar_t specifies some kind of strange windoze string format that does not match a single-quoted string in Perl, and that's why the call isn't working. Does anyone know what this format specifies and how I convert to that?

Many thanks....

Steve

In reply to Initializing a COM object by cormanaz

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