Re: Outlook & Win32::OLE

Here's a node I wrote, which has some sample code that might help, but more importantly, you should check out Super Search, using Win32::OLE and Outlook as keywords. Quite a broad range of (hopefully) related nodes.

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Re^2: Outlook & Win32::OLE by Nalina (Monk) on Aug 18, 2004 at 05:11 UTC
I am new to perl. I had a look at ur node, what does '-f' stand for in the statement `unlink $temp_file_name if -f $temp_file_name;` [download] and what is '$\|' variable?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Outlook & Win32::OLE by bassplayer (Monsignor) on Aug 18, 2004 at 14:06 UTC
`-f` is a file test operator used to see if a file is plain text. In my code, I was just deleting the file if it existed, and probably should have used `-e`. More information on file test operators can be found here. As far as `$\|++`, this stops the buffering of the output. `$\|=1` is cleaner in this case, so I've updated my old node. For more info on `$\|++` and `$\|=1`, here are some interesting, relevant nodes. bassplayer	[reply] [d/l] [select]