What is the perl equivalent of vba

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

What is the perl equivalent of vba code line 1

0: dim str as string, Rng as range
1: str =Rng.style
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I tried to use as follows

$str = $rng->{style}
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But it returns an hash. im trying to get the style name of the range object

Pls help