I went back and ran some perl code using the Excel COM object. Excel does properly exit... so it looks like you are correct -- it's probably a bug in PHP's COM code.
Attached is is sample Perl, PHP and Excel, if anyone wants to verify that excel does indeed die after the perl script is finished, yet stays alive when the PHP script is finished. --- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 201-462-2149 Fax: 201-288-1515 > -----Original Message----- > Try > > $book->Close("False"); > Doesnt do anything. > But then one has to ask, why does it work fine from other > languages, e.g. Perl? If the API were broken, it would seem > that it would be broken regardless of the language one was > using. > > Scott Yeah.. that's the way it seems now.
test1.xls
Description: MS-Excel spreadsheet
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