Greetings Monks *bows*,

Noob alert and apologies in advance for anything you deem requires an apology.

Just cutting my teeth on Perl and Excel - I've done some basic Perl in the past - now looking to learn new stuff.

I'm messing around with a script to run a "df -Pk" command on linux boxes using plink from my desktop (my $output = `plink -pw <pwd> -ssh -l <usr> $server df -Pk`;) and getting the output into excel. So far so good - the following code pastes the output of the df command into the first column of my spreadsheet:

my $CLIP = Win32::Clipboard();
$CLIP->Set($output);
print "Clipboard contains: ", $CLIP->Get(), "\n";
my $paste_range = $worksheet->Range('A1');
$paste_range->PasteSpecial();

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Each line is in its own row but all in a single column. Is there a way I can specify a delimiter whilst pasting (so that the file systems and values in each line are in separate cells) or is there a way of replicating the Data > Text to Columns process once I've pasted the data into the sheet?

Any advice gratefully received.

In reply to Excel > Data > Text to Columns (Win32::OLE) by Bascule

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