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Re^3: Problem opening WriteExcel generated spreadsheets with OLE

by furry_marmot (Pilgrim)
on Mar 04, 2010 at 17:31 UTC ( [id://826756]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Problem opening WriteExcel generated spreadsheets with OLE
in thread Problem opening WriteExcel generated spreadsheets with OLE

Context, young one! Context!

Internally, on Win32 (<==a context), Perl sees './test.xls', "./test.xls", '.\test.xls', and ".\\test.xls" as the same thing. But if you pass a pathname to something else (oh, say, part of the Windows API known as OLE, another context...), you need to make sure that thing will understand what you mean.

To the Windows API, OLE, MS-Office, etc and so forth, "./test.xls" has no meaning.

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