Unable to get the select property of the range class...

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

I have some Win32::OLE code interfacing with Excel, and I get an error when I try to access the select property of the range class. The OLE-Browser validates that range has a selection property, I've done code like this before accessing it, but all of a sudden I'm getting the error (the one in the title).

the code looks like this

my ($rest,$imc);
for my $i (0..$Groups+1) {
  for my $j (15*($i+1)-$Conds..15*($i+1)) {
    $avg->Range(xl_rowcol_to_cell($j-1,2*$Meas+5))->Select();
    $rest = 2*$Meas+4;
    $imc  = 2*$Meas+3;
    $Xl->ActiveCell->{Value} = "=ABS(RC[-$rest]-RC[-$imc])";
    $avg->Range(xl_rowcol_to_cell($j-1,2*$Meas+6))->Select();
    $rest = 2*$Meas+3;
    $imc  = 2*$Meas+2;
    $Xl->ActiveCell->{Value} = "=Abs(RC[-$rest]-RC[-$imc])";
    if($i == 0) {
      $avg->Range(xl_rowcol_to_cell($j-1,2*$Meas+7))->Select();
      $rest = 2*$Meas+2;
      $imc  = 2*$Meas+1;
      $Xl->ActiveCell->{Value} = "=Abs(RC[-$rest]-RC[-$imc])";
      }
    }
  }
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I get a long line of these:

OLE exception from "Microsoft Excel":

Unable to get the Select property of the Range class

Win32::OLE(0.1502) error 0x800a03ec
    in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "Select" at dyna.pl line 281
OLE exception from "Microsoft Excel":
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Anything wrong with the code? ($Xl is an excel object made with Win32::OLE->new, $avg is a worksheet--I write on it elsewhere/do some formatting and it works, so I know that isn't the problem)

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Re: Unable to get the select property of the range class... by jsprat (Curate) on Jul 30, 2002 at 18:55 UTC
Hello again, dimmesdale. You've come a long way with OLE! About the error - the syntax looks fine. Have you checked the return value of `xl_rowcol_to_cell`? IME, it looks like the error Excel gives when you try to select a range that extends outside the worksheet. I'd print the results of `xl_rowcol_to_cell` and make sure that it returns what you think it should.	[reply]
Re: Re: Unable to get the select property of the range class... by dimmesdale (Friar) on Jul 30, 2002 at 19:14 UTC
That's what I thought (and it may have been). (Thanks) I changed it to this (I realized I didn't need the select() method to do the `rc[-3]` type thing) and it worked fine: `$rest = 2$Meas+4; $imc = 2$Meas+3; $avg->Range(xl_rowcol_to_cell($j-1,2*$Meas+5))->{Value} = "=ABS(RC[-$rest]-RC[-$imc])"; ..etc..` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]