Thanks for your prompt response!

Well, I knew that my approach would not work as-is, because inserting/deleting rows/columns will cause a one-off error, which the counter would have to account for by incrementing/decrementing.

I'm glad you pointed out that the spreadsheet does indeed have sequential rows, and the "missing" rows are only "invisible" rows. With this knowledge, I'm thinking that I could look for a "Hidden" attribute on rows/cells.

for (my $i = $min_row; $i <= $max_row; $i++) {
    my $current_cell = $sheet->cells($i, 1);
    if ( $current_cell->("Hidden") ) {
      next;
    }
    ... ### Do clever row insertions here.
        ### Increment $i as needed.
}

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Of course, a little bit of googling suggests that Win32::OLE does not surface a "hidden" or "visible" property. Any other ideas?

In reply to Re^2: Win32::OLE and Excel: Iterating when certain row numbers are missing by ownlifeful
in thread Win32::OLE and Excel: Iterating when certain row numbers are missing by ownlifeful

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