The Object Browser in Excel yields, The UILanguage property of the Excel.Application object as the possible solution here. When I looked for help on it.. it says it's not relevant to US English versions of Excel .. which makes me think this is what you're looking for. So based on the value of that... have a statement akin to... 

my $h = ($xl->{UILanguage} eq 'German' ? 'Z':'R');
my $v = ($xl->{UILanguage} eq 'German' ? 'S':'C');

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H and V standing for horizontal and vertical.. keeping it neutral to the actual words for row and column in german and english.

Grygonos

In reply to Re: Win32:OLE -> difference between English and German Excel by Grygonos
in thread Win32:OLE -> difference between English and German Excel by Streen

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