Hello Great Ones

I have a problem understanding passing variants by reference and returning the changed variant value by the method the object is calling!

Example..... 
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Variant;

my $obj  = Win32::OLE->new('Server.SpellCheck') or die "Can not start 
+server\n";
my $word = 'testt';
my $lang = 24941;
my $dic  = '';
my $opt  = 303872;
my $dpt   = 70;

# start the server by calling the REG TREE
# it is using for this spell check session

$obj->Start('SOFTWARE\abc spell\\' . $lang);

# create the place holder for the suggestions
# list returned by the Suggest() method below

my $sugg = Variant(VT_BSTR|VT_BYREF, "");

# call the Suggest() method to get the suggestions
# for the misspelled word, held in $word value!

$obj->Suggest($word, $dpt, $lang, $dic, $opt, $sugg);

print $sugg . "\n";

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$sugg, should return a list of suggestions by reference but it does not! So can someone show me what I am doing, because I thought I followed the Doc....

OLE DOCS...

Variants by reference

Some OLE servers expect parameters passed by reference so that they ca
+n be
changed in the method call. This allows methods to easily return multi
+ple
values. There is preliminary support for this in the Win32::OLE::Varia
+nt module:

        my $x = Variant(VT_I4|VT_BYREF, 0);
        my $y = Variant(VT_I4|VT_BYREF, 0);
        $Corel->GetSize($x, $y);
        print "Size is $x by $y\n";

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Thank You

Dawn

Edited by Chady -- fixed formatting.

In reply to Win32::OLE (Variants by reference) by @dawn

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