Perlscript asp object syntax problem

I am using a

$obj = $Server->CreateObject("customdll.object") command successfully.

I get the correct output from a call such as

$obj->{something};

but I can't get the correct syntax for a method which in vbscript
works fine as

objAuth.OutputField("message")

When I use my best guess

$strMessage = "$obj->{OutputField}->{'message'}";

$Response->Write("message is: $strMessage ." );

there is no error but the output is just "message is:."

though I am sure there would be a message.

At the head of the page I have

use Data::Dumper;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Variant; #this gets the dates out of the database
right.
use Time::Local;

and tried

for my $item ($obj){
$Response->Write("Got first, " . Dumper($item) . "
");
}

but the output of that is

Got first, $VAR1 = bless( {}, 'Win32::OLE' );

It would be much appreciated if I could be told the correct syntax.
Les

Re: Perlscript asp object syntax problem

On 11/15/2007 08:11 AM, Les wrote:
> I am using a
>
> $obj = $Server->CreateObject("customdll.object") command successfully.
>
> I get the correct output from a call such as
>
> $obj->{something};
>
> but I can't get the correct syntax for a method which in vbscript
> works fine as
>
> objAuth.OutputField("message")
>
> When I use my best guess
>
> $strMessage = "$obj->{OutputField}->{'message'}";
>
> $Response->Write("message is: $strMessage ." );
>
> there is no error but the output is just "message is:."
>
> though I am sure there would be a message.
> [...]

I have no access to a Windows/IIS/ASP/Perl system for testing, but my
guess is that you have to do this:

$strMessage = $obj->OutputField("message");

Re: Perlscript asp object syntax problem

On 15 Nov, 15:57, "Mumia W." +nos...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 11/15/2007 08:11 AM, Les wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I am using a
>
> > $obj = $Server->CreateObject("customdll.object") command successfully.
>
> > I get the correct output from a call such as
>
> > $obj->{something};
>
> > but I can't get the correct syntax for a method which in vbscript
> > works fine as
>
> > objAuth.OutputField("message")
>
> > When I use my best guess
>
> > $strMessage = "$obj->{OutputField}->{'message'}";
>
> > $Response->Write("message is: $strMessage ." );
>
> > there is no error but the output is just "message is:."
>
> > though I am sure there would be a message.
> > [...]
>
> I have no access to a Windows/IIS/ASP/Perl system for testing, but my
> guess is that you have to do this:
>
> $strMessage = $obj->OutputField("message");- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Dear Mumia,

You are so right. I thought I had tried that, but it seems not, and it
works nicely. Thank you so much.