OLE links

[Farab]

We have an application that saves OLE links to documents in a database. The OLE link information is in the format that's returned from the WIN/OLE API, not a plain text path to the document.

Are there Perl code/modules that can extract the plain text path from an OLE link or read an OLE document using the OLE link not a plain text path?

 

[duncdude]

what do they look like? any examples(s)?


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[EBGreen]

I haven't used any of these modules, but a quick search at CPAN turned up:
OLE::Storage::Var
Variable handling for properties
OLE-Storage-0.386 - 27 Apr 1998 - Martin Schwartz

Win32::OLE::Const
Extract constant definitions from TypeLib
libwin32-0.191 - 08 Jul 2002 - Gurusamy Sarathy

Win32::OLE
OLE Automation extensions
Win32-OLE-0.17 - 11 Aug 2003 - Jan Dubois

Win32::OLE
OLE Automation extensions
libwin32-0.191 - 08 Jul 2002 - Gurusamy Sarathy

OLE
Win32-OLE-0.17 - 11 Aug 2003 - Jan Dubois

OLE
libwin32-0.191 - 08 Jul 2002 - Gurusamy Sarathy

Win32::OLE::NLS
OLE National Language Support
libwin32-0.191 - 08 Jul 2002 - Gurusamy Sarathy

OLE::Storage_Lite
Simple Class for OLE document interface. (Version: 0.11)
OLE-Storage_Lite-0.11 - 25 Nov 2002 - ?? ??

Win32::OLE::NLS
OLE National Language Support
Win32-OLE-0.17 - 11 Aug 2003 - Jan Dubois