in reply to how to assign a vb 6.0 variable value to a perl variable
VB uses "&" as a string-concat operator, so you could write VB code to convert that into a perl variable like this:
fname.WriteLine ("my $ipad_ip ='" & rec3("IPADDRESS") & "';")
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