Hello:

Again thanks for your patience on this issue.

And I agree that the code you posted last should work. But it does not. However, taking another look at the Bloomberg documentation I found another function call that is simpler and does the same thing.

This code works.

use Data::Dumper;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Variant;


$blpData = Win32::OLE->new('Bloomberg.Data.1')  or die "can NOT load t
+he blpData" ;

#print $blpData->Timeout   . "\n";


$aSec  =   Variant(VT_BSTR,  "VDE.A Equity");
     #@tmpArray  = ("PX_Last"); 
$aFields = Variant(VT_ARRAY|VT_BSTR, 5 );

$aFields->Put(0,"NAME") ; 
$aFields->Put(1,"ID_SEDOL1") ; 
$aFields->Put(2,"ID_CUSIP") ; 
$aFields->Put(3,"ID_ISIN") ; 
$aFields->Put(4,"ETF_UNDL_INDEX_TICKER") ; 

$bbData = Variant(VT_EMPTY,1) ;


$bbData = Variant(VT_EMPTY, 1);

$bbData = $blpData->BLPSubscribe($aSec, $aFields  );

print "Error: " . Win32::OLE->LastError  . "\n";
  #print "Array Size: " , $bbData->Dim . "\n";
  #print "Returned: " . $bbData->Get(0)  . "\n";
  print Dumper $bbData;

  for my $e (@$bbData)   {
     print Dumper $e;     
     
     my $d = @$e->[0]; 
     print "Col Zero: " . @$e->[0] . "  Col One: " . @$e->[1] . "  Col
+ Four: " . @$e->[4] . " \n" ;
     print "Col Zero: " . $d  . " \n" ;
   

     #foreach $tmp (@aDim) {
     #   print $tmp
     
  }

print  "end"  ;
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It returns the following

Using an array as a reference is deprecated at tstblpSubscribeIIg.pl l
+ine 37.
Using an array as a reference is deprecated at tstblpSubscribeIIg.pl l
+ine 39.
Using an array as a reference is deprecated at tstblpSubscribeIIg.pl l
+ine 39.
Using an array as a reference is deprecated at tstblpSubscribeIIg.pl l
+ine 39.
Error: 0
$VAR1 = [
          [
            'VANGUARD ENERGY ETF',
            'B031N66',
            '92204A306',
            'US92204A3068',
            'MSCIEN'
          ]
        ];
$VAR1 = [
          'VANGUARD ENERGY ETF',
          'B031N66',
          '92204A306',
          'US92204A3068',
          'MSCIEN'
        ];
Col Zero: VANGUARD ENERGY ETF  Col One: B031N66  Col Four: MSCIEN
end
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However it has a minor issue. Using an array as a reference.
I tried many variations of syntax to access the arrays returned. The @$e-> is the only one that worked. Hoping you would provide me with clean syntax to parse the results returned.

thanks in advance.

kd