The following shows how to find the PID's of running Excel instances. 
use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::Process::Info;
use Data::Dumper;

my $pi = Win32::Process::Info->new();

for ( $pi->ListPids )
{
    my ($info) = $pi->GetProcInfo ($_);
    
    print "Excel instance at PID $_.\n" if $info->{Name} =~ /excel\.ex
+e/i;
}

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Sadly, I'm not sure how to find out, which file is opened by a specific instance. That is a bit more difficult, because each instance can open multiple files.

Update:
A possible way might be to
  1. Enumerate the windows in the system
  2. Find out which PID belongs to that window
  3. If the window belongs to one of your Excel instances, find out the windows' caption
  4. The part after the first dash of the caption (" - ") must be the filename (because Excels' windows normally have captions like "Microsoft Excel - File.xls")


holli, /regexed monk/

In reply to Re: Get PID of an excel.exe opened by perl by holli
in thread Get PID of an excel.exe opened by perl by Nalina

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