I've got the fun task of converting some ASP to Perl, pretty trivial except for the case where I get something like this (JScript): 

    var rsFollow = Server.CreateObject('ADODB.Recordset');
/* snip */
    while (!rsFollow.EOF)
    {
        Response.Write('   <tr>\n');

        Response.Write('    <td>' + rsFollow("Book Title") + '</td>\n'
+);

        rsFollow.MoveNext();
    }

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Now, most of this can be ported relatively easily, so that you get something like: 

my $rsFollow = Win32::OLE->new('ADODB.Recordset');
# snip
    while( !$rsFollow->{EOF} )
    {
        print( "   <tr>\n" );

        print( "    <td> $rsFollow->{'Book Title'} + </td>\n");
        print( "   </tr>\n" );

        $rsFollow->MoveNext();
    }

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This however doesn't work, spewing out a bunch of errors ("Win32::OLE=HASH(0x1a71c20)" etc)

But it seems Perl doesn't want to iterate through the collections until it matches?

PS: I'm using strict and warnings, and this isn't going to stay as spewing out HTML...

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RatArsed

In reply to Using COM in Perl by RatArsed

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