wakatana,

I'm a beginner in perl myself, but I can answer some of the questions you've asked.

First off, there are several online tutorials on perl. Try this link before starting, or try downloading the relative chapters of 'Beginning Perl' from the perl website. Also, try the search bar first before asking such a huge question.

|| and the or operator both represent he same thing, only || has a a higher priority than or. If the code before the || returns a true value, i.e. is executed properly, then any thing after the || is ignored. Otherwise, it is executed. Try the piece of code below. 

 #!/usr/bin/perl

    0 or print "0:false\n";
    1 or print "1:false\n";
    
    0 or die "Error\n";
    print"Not executed";

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2nd, -> and => are completely unrelated. See hashes and references. Also look at Object oriented programming in perl(OOP), and modules. Do NOT try programming in perl without first understanding hashes.

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Rohit Raghunathan

In reply to Re: win32 OLE in deeper details by rohit_raghu
in thread win32 OLE in deeper details by wakatana

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