I'm using Win32::OLE to open and read spreadsheets. This works fine for a spreadsheet created with Excel, but when I try to use it to open a spreadsheet that I generated using Spreadsheed::WriteExcel, I get this error message: 

OLE exception from "Microsoft Office Excel":

'./test.xls' could not be found. Check the spelling of the file name, 
+and
verify that the file location is correct.

If you are trying to open the file from your list of most recently use
+d
files, make sure that the file has not been renamed, moved, or deleted
+.

Win32::OLE(0.1709) error 0x800a03ec
    in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "Open" at C:/workspace/graph.pl line 12

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but, the file is there and does exist, in that directory. The code for opening the Excel sheet is: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
#use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';
$Win32::OLE::Warn=3;

my $Excel=Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')||
    Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');

my $book=$Excel->Workbooks->Open("./test.xls");
my $sheet=$book->Worksheets(1);

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The code I'm using to create the spreadsheets is (I'm just posting the relevant parts): 
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;

$filename="".$currSite.".xls";
$workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new($filename);
$worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet();

while(<$file>){
    $worksheet->write($row,0,$year);
    $worksheet->write($row,1,$count);
    $row++;
}
$workbook->close();

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I don't know what is wrong. Perhaps there are some permissions that are wrong? Thanks for any help and/or nudges in the right direction.

In reply to Problem opening WriteExcel generated spreadsheets with OLE by vassago

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