I have a basic Win32::OLE question. Im just trying to retrieve the values of properties for files using OLE. Specifically I want to retrieve the "Date Picture Taken" value from my JPG files. But to start off I cant even get these basic properties...

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use Win32::OLE('in');

$tp = Win32::OLE->GetObject("C:\\testpic-1.JPG");
print "Readable Attribute Value: $tp->{'Readable'}\n";
print "File Name: $tp->{'FileName'}\n";

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When I run this I get the following output:

C:\>test.pl
Readable Attribute Value: [object]
File Name: [object]

C:\

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Can someone please tell me how to retrieve file properties and specifically the "Date Picture Taken" property?

In reply to Getting file attributes/properties using Win32 OLE by odog502

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