Long time lurker, first time poster...please be gentle. I am attempting to move through a directory, pull out only files of a .fin extension (which is Word document format), save each one as .rtf (Rich Text Format). I'd also like to be able to run some predefined macros on the files, but I thought just being able to save was a good place to start.
Currently I get an error stating 'Can't call method "SaveAs" on an undefined value'. If someone could point me to some clearer text on Win32::OLE than the stuff that ASPN, CPAN and Oreilly's Win32 or Nutshell book I'd greatly appreciate it. If you could tell me what stupid thing I am missing this time that would be great too. Here's the code: #usr/bin/perl use Win32::OLE; use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word'; $articleDirName = "c:\\work\\test\\psq\\test\\"; unless (opendir(DIR, $articleDirName)) { warn "Can't open $articleDirName\n"; closedir(DIR); exit(1); } foreach (readdir(DIR)) { next if $_ eq '.' || $_ eq '..'; $path = "$articleDirName$_"; if (-f $path){ if ($path =~ /\.fin/i){ $doc = Win32::OLE->GetObject($path); $fileName = $path . ".rtf"; print "$fileName\n"; $doc->ActiveDocument->SaveAs({FileName => $fileName, FileFormat => wdFormatRTF}) } undef $doc; undef $path; undef $fileName; } } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>