Hello All, I first want to say this site has been a tremendous help as I learn to use PERL and kind of hack my way to some automation. Thank you all for taking the time to post your questions and answers. A huge help for us newbies.

My question is in regards to using PERL to open Internet Explorer and then using IE to open a second program. The program I am running is called BRIO and the query that BRIO completes can only be run from an IE window. I have my code setup to open IE, and that works fine (found the code for that on this site), but then I am kind of stuck on how to have PERL open BRIO from the IE session. I have my code below, which I know is wrong, but can anyone out there help me. Thanks Portree 

use strict;
use Win32::OLE;

my ($brio);

#This is the location where my brio query is held on the server
$brio
= '//172.21.75.45/planning/logistics/programs/B_Chicago_wip_query.bqy'
+;

#Then open up a new IE session
my $ie = Win32::OLE->new("InternetExplorer.Application") or die "Can't
+ start IE\n";
$ie->{visible} = 1;

$ie->navigate("http://www.perlmonks.org");

#didn't seem to need this next piece, seems to work fine without it
#while(1){
#    $ie->Refresh();
#    sleep 5*60;
#}

#Then try and use IE to open up the BRIO program
$ie->open = ($brio)

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