Hi, I am trying to use Win32 OLE to call a function that retrieves an array of bytes. This function expects a VARIANT pointer like the following. Read(int address, unsigned short bySize, VARIANT *byData); And the Perl code is as follows. 

use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Variant;

my $re = Win32::OLE->new('Read.ReadService') || die("Unable to open Re
+adService ", Win32::OLE->LastError());


#Variables
my $dat;
my $temp;


#$dat = Variant(VT_UI1|VT_ARRAY|VT_BYREF, 1);
$dat = Variant(VT_EMPTY, 1);
$re->Read(0xE0000, 13, $dat);

foreach $temp ($dat) {
    print "0x".$temp;
}

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I have tried many different ways to pass the variant but no luck. Can anyone point me to the right way to pass the variant to retrieve the data back? Any suggestions would be very helpful? Thanks.

In reply to Trouble retrieving array of bytes using OLE by eforperl

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