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

by wazoox (Prior)
on Jul 30, 2009 at 21:09 UTC ( [id://784741]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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.
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