++ brother clemburg!

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To be honest there don't seem to be a great deal of modules out there that interface with Windows apps. There are so many Windows apps out there it's not really worth creating a module for it when OLE automation is straightforward once you know where to start.

SpreadSheet::Excel is great and it's obvious that the author went to a great deal of work to write the module without using OLE.

I've seen a lot of nodes here recently requesting help automating Windows tasks that are very suited to Win32::OLE. Maybe we could post some easy examples to the Code Catacombs?

On seconds thoughts - I will write a Module Review for Win32::OLE.

Update: Drat! Rudif has already written a pretty good module review for Win32::OLE. Would it hurt to write another, or would you recommend that I add a follow-on to his node with some more examples?

In reply to Re: Re: Parsing an MS Word document by $code or die
in thread Parsing an MS Word document by Anonymous Monk

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