Because collections are the usual datatype to pass around list. I think they use the ICollection interface and possibly can also be accessed through the string dispatch methods.

I still wonder how you failed to notice the Overloading section in Win32::OLE, but maybe we have different notions of what "a good read through" means.

Maybe if you can show us some VB code, we can give you more ideas of what to try to replicate the same behaviour in Perl. My approach is to open up Excel, press Alt-F11 to launch the VB environment, then add the OLE object I want from the menu under Tools\References, and then press F2 to browse the object model of said OLE object. This is usually available even when the documentation is bad. But maybe you want to use a different approach.

In reply to Re^5: parsing Win32::OLE::Variant by Corion
in thread parsing Win32::OLE::Variant by kevind0718

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