Note: In the following code snippet, &w_die is a routine to write the error message to a log file before dying.

This code runs fine if I am actually logged in. However, when I try to set it up in Windows (Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks) to read from an Excel file each day at a given time when I am not logged in, it fails.

(I AM able to read from an Oracle database this way using Scheduled Tasks when I am not logged in, with 

use Win32::ODBC;

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However, trying to do the same thing with Excel when not logged in fails.)

Here is the snippet: 

...
use OLE; # will read Excel workbooks
 ...
eval {$excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')};
  &w_die("Excel not installed") if $@;
 ...
$excel = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', sub {$_[0]->Quit;}) or
  &w_die("Sorry, cannot start Excel\n");
...

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End of snippet.

The result in my logfile is: 

Sorry, cannot start Excel

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Again, this works fine if I am actually logged in. How can I get Perl to read from an Excel file at a given time when I am not logged in?

Thank you

In reply to When not logged in, using Win32::OLE for Excel fails by dana81

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