Re: How create a time object of VBS in perl?

John Mason Jr <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.active-perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
  On 9/19/2010 7:48 AM, Ludwig, Michael wrote:
>>     Could you tell me how create a time object of VBS in perl? Below
>> statement define a starting time and pass it to the getdata function
>> to get data in VBS:
>>
>> start_time = DateSerial( 2003, 01, 31) + TimeSerial( 6, 0, 0)
>> data_array = lpd.getdata(id, start_time)
>>
>> But I don't know how to translate it into perl.
>> Since I intend to rewrite all vbs scripts, it will be a big problem!
> Using Windows Script Files (.wsf)
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/15x4407c%28VS.85%29.aspx
>
> WSF might be helpful to you. It allows you to have several engines
> work jointly. You might be able to keep the parts in VBS that are not
> practical to port to Perl. It is XML, so you can use Unicode in your
> script.
>

If you are doing a bunch of conversions then you might want to look at 
the Perl Dev Kit as it has a vbscript to perl converter

John
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