Hello, this is my first Perl Monks post.

I'm writing a script that will take one or more Excel spreadsheets and use their data to update Oracle data. I'm able to call the requisite Windows open file dialog but i can't seem to then get the dialog box to accept more than one file. Please advise,

$fileDialogParameters{title} and $fileDialogParameters{dir} behave as expected. So i know the call is working. It seems however that $fileDialogParameters{options} gets ignored. Also i would think that i should be able to enter multiple options (for example OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT and OFN_EXPLORER) but i have no idea how to do this either

use Win32::FileOp;
$fileDialogParameters{title} = q(Open quota spreadsheet(s));
$fileDialogParameters{dir} = q(c:\\);
$fileDialogParameters{options} = $OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT; #also tried OF
+N_ALLOWMULTISELECT
@fileName = OpenDialog \%fileDialogParameters;

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Win32::FileOp doc = http://interglacial.com/~sburke/tpj/as_html/tpj21.html

Thanks.

In reply to Using Win32::FileOp::OpenDialog to get multiple files by plendid

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