Thanks for your quick reply.
Your suggestion helped me make progress.

When I run the code below I get the following error:
Can't call method "Get" on unblessed reference at tstblpDataII.pl line 27.

I must admit, being new to the world of PERL, that I have no idea what this means. Something about classes.

If it helps. The code to do the same processing in VB looks like this.

VBA Code 

 Dim vtSec As Variant <br>
 Dim vtFields As Variant<br>
 Dim vtData As Variant<br>


    strSecId = Cells(currRow, colSecurityID).Value <br>
      vtSec = Array(Cells(currRow, colBBCode).Value & "  " & Cells(cur
+rRow, colSecType).Value)<br>
      vtData = bbObject.BlpGetHistoricalData(vtSec, vtFields, CDate(st
+rBdate), CDate(strEDate)) <br>

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PERL code 
use Win32::OLE;<br>
use Win32::OLE::Variant;<br>


$blpData = Win32::OLE->new('Bloomberg.Data.1')  or die "can NOT load t
+he blpData" ;<br>

#print $blpData->Timeout   . "\n";<br>


$aSec  =   Variant(VT_BSTR,  "IBM Equity");<br>
     #@tmpArray  = ("PX_Last"); <br>
$aFields = Variant(VT_ARRAY|VT_BSTR, 1 );<br>
$aFields->Put(0, "PX_Last");<br>

$sDate =   Variant(VT_DATE,  "2007/07/01");<br>
$eDate =   Variant(VT_DATE,  "2007/07/10");<br>

$bbData = Variant(VT_EMPTY, 1);<br>

$bbData = $blpData->BLPGetHistoricalData($aSec,  $aFields,  $sDate, $e
+Date);<br>

print "Error: " . Win32::OLE->LastError  . "\n";<br>
  #print "Array Size: " , $bbData->Dim . "\n";<br>
print "Returned: " . $bbData->Get(0)  . "\n";<br>
  #@aDim = @bbData->Dim ;<br>

  #foreach $tmp (@aDim) {<br>
  #   print $tmp<br>
  #   <br>
  #}<br>

print  "end"  ;<br>

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In reply to Re: Win32::OLE::Variant Array by Anonymous Monk
in thread Win32::OLE::Variant Array by kevind0718

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