Hrm.. I can run this just fine on my W2k box (only changed the path's). Make sure that your path etc is correct, print out what you are adding to the array prior to pushing it in there.
Also, perhaps just a style thing, but I think that
foreach $elem (@allfiles){
    if ($elem =~ /[\d\w\s]+\.$filename/){
    #rest of if code
}

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looks much nicer and is much easer to read than those for loops, or even better drop the $elem alltogether and use $_.

Update: If I change the "\\" to "/" (forward slashes should work the same as double-backslashes) I now get the error, otherwise everything still works fine...

In reply to Re: Using Win32::OLE 'Excel' and stumped by the_slycer
in thread Using Win32::OLE 'Excel' and stumped by cacharbe

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