Nearly every example I can find of using OLE to manipulate Excel spreadsheets shows me I can use the "Range" method to define a set of values I can get with an array reference: 
use OLE;

my $count;
my $xl = CreateObject OLE 'Excel.Application' || die $!;
my $workbook = $xl->Workbooks->Open("C:\\test.xls");
my $worksheet = $workbook->Worksheets(1);
my $array = $worksheet->Range("A1:B10")->{'Value'};

for (@$array) { print ++$count, ":", join(",", @$_), "\n" }

$xl->ActiveWorkbook->Close(0);
$xl->Quit();

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But I haven't seen any examples of reading the entire worksheet at once. How can I find out how many rows (and columns, less importantly) I'm dealing with?

I tried my $rows = $worksheet->Rows(); but that seems to return a reference to something that isn't a scalar.

In reply to OLE - Getting all rows from Excel by httptech

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