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Anytime I am trying to use perl and OLE to access M$ products, I start by creating a macro that does exactly what I want the perl program to do. Then I start translating the macro into perl. I've been considering creating a translator but I just never seem to have the time. Most of the work of translating it can be done with some regular expressions. It's the odd situations that the translator is actually required for.
For example, I wanted to setup my page for printing and I created a macro to do it. Here is a small snippet of that macro:

    With ActiveSheet.PageSetup
        .PrintTitleRows = "$1:$2"
        .PrintTitleColumns = ""
        .PrintArea = "$B:$I"
    End With

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So I save that little snippet in a file called mymacro.txt. And then I run this code on it: 
my $pl = "";
open(TXT, "<mymacro.txt");
while (<TXT>) {
    s/\./->/;
    s/=/=>/;
    s/"/'/g;
    s/\s+End With/);/;
    s/\s+With (\w+)->(\w+)/\$Range = \$$1->$2;\nwith (\$Range/i;
    s/(.*[^;])\n/$1,\n/;
    $pl .= $_;
}
close(TXT);
open(TXT, ">mymacro.pl");
print TXT $pl;
close(TXT);

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and the contents of mymacro.pl are: 
$Range = $ActiveSheet->PageSetup;
with ($Range,
    PrintTitleRows => '$1:$2',
    PrintTitleColumns => '',
    PrintArea => '$B:$I',
);

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Not all macros will translate this easily though.
Matthew Musgrove
Who says that programmers can't work in the Marketing Department?
Or is that who says that Marketing people can't program?

In reply to Re: Win32 - M$ Outlook and Perl. by Mr. Muskrat
in thread Win32 - M$ Outlook and Perl. by ChunLi

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