Re^3: Check whether the file is in use by an other user

[wazoox]

in reply to Re^2: Check whether the file is in use by an other user
in thread Using Win32::OLE and Excel - Tips and Tricks

See the flock documentation to check the various (and numerous) available flags, there is probably one of them that'll do what you want :) BTW you really should have posted this in its own thread, because it's a problem completely unrelated to the scope of this tutorial.