I have the following subroutine:
sub OpenAndSaveXLS{
    (my $xlsfile)=@_;
    if((-e $xlsfile) and (!isFileInUse($xlsfile))){
        
        $xlsfile =~ s/\//\\/g;
        print "xls: ".$xlsfile . "\n\n";
        my $ex_ol = Win32::OLE::Const->Load("Microsoft Excel 12.0 Obje
+ct Library");
        my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')||
+ Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');
        $Excel->Application->{DisplayAlerts}  = 0;
        my $book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open("$xlsfile");
        $Excel->ActiveWorkbook->SaveAs({FileName=>"$xlsfile", FileForm
+at=>$$ex_ol{'xlWorkbookNormal'}});    
        $book->Close();
        $Excel->Quit();
        
        return 0;
    }
}

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If I use this subroutine once everything is fine, but if I do it twice the following error occures: Win32::OLE(0.1709) error 0x80010108: "Das aufgerufene Objekt wurde von den Clients getrennt" in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "Application" at Helper.pm line 233 Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at Helper.pm line 233. I call it like this: 
Helper::OpenAndSaveXLS("D:/foo.xls");
Helper::OpenAndSaveXLS("D:/foo2.xls");

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If I do it in debugging-mode, everything works fine. Obviously the first OpenAndSaveXLS-call is not finished when the 2nd starts.

Does anybody has an idea why this happens?

Best regards, fish

In reply to Win32::OLE called by subroutine only workes once by fish

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