My company has an COM object that opens up an application and updates records. I currently have a working version in vbs but I would like to be able to work with it in perl. Here is the working vbs code

Dim DB 
Set DB = WScript.CreateObject("Company.Object") 
DB.Open "param1", "param2", "param3", "param4"
    DB.Login "Username", "Password"
    DB.Contact.NewRecord
    DB.Contact.Value("FULL_NAME") = "ZZxxZtest ZZtester"
    DB.Contact.Value("LAST_NAME") = "ZZxxZtester"
    DB.Contact.Update
    DB.Logout
    DB.Close

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This code works as it should. Logs on updates a record and logs back out.
Here Is my perl code

#!perl

use Win32::OLE;

my $DB;
$DB = Win32::OLE->new('Company.object');
$DB->Open('param1', 'param2', 'param3', 'param4');
$DB->Login('username', 'password');
$DB->Contact->NewRecord();
$DB->Contact->SetProperty("Value", 'FULL_NAME', 'ZZxxZtest ZZtester');
$DB->Contact->SetProperty("Value", 'LAST_NAME', 'ZZxxZtester');
$DB->Contact->Update();
$DB->Logout();
$DB->Close();

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When it runs I get the following error
Can't call method "NewRecord" on an undefined value at test2.pl line 9.

I have tried several variations of the code and cant seem to get anything to work.

In reply to vbs to perl conversion problem by bobdole

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