Hello World!

I've been having trouble with using Excel, in that it's extremely slow. I think I've isolated the problem, but don't know whether it's to do with perl, my pc, or what.

This script:...

use Win32::OLE::Const  'Microsoft Excel';
print xlExtractData."\n";

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Takes 75 seconds to execute!

I did this:
perl -D:Prof test1.pl
dprofpp -r tmon.out
and got this result:

Exporter::export has -1 unstacked calls in outer
Exporter::Heavy::heavy_export has 1 unstacked calls in outer
Total Elapsed Time = 74.89209 Seconds
         Real Time = 74.89209 Seconds
Exclusive Times
%Time ExclSec CumulS #Calls sec/call Csec/c  Name
 99.4   74.45 74.454    538   0.1384 0.1384  Win32::OLE::Const::_Typel
+ib
 0.36   0.268 74.722      1   0.2678 74.721  Win32::OLE::Const::_Typel
+ibs
 0.07   0.051  0.051      1   0.0510 0.0510  Win32::OLE::Const::_LoadR
+egTypeLib
 0.05   0.040  0.040      1   0.0400 0.0400  Win32::OLE::Const::_Const
+ants
 0.04   0.030 74.892      1   0.0300 74.892  main::BEGIN
 0.03   0.020  0.050      3   0.0066 0.0165  Win32::OLE::Const::BEGIN
 0.01   0.010  0.010      2   0.0050 0.0050  Config::fetch_string
 0.01   0.010  0.010      2   0.0050 0.0050  DynaLoader::BEGIN
 0.01   0.010  0.010      3   0.0033 0.0033  vars::BEGIN
 0.00   0.000  0.000      1   0.0000 0.0000  Exporter::Heavy::heavy_ex
+port
 0.00       - -0.000      1        -      -  Config::TIEHASH
 0.00       - -0.000      1        -      -  DynaLoader::dl_load_file
 0.00       - -0.000      1        -      -  DynaLoader::dl_install_xs
+ub
 0.00       - -0.000      1        -      -  warnings::BEGIN
 0.00       - -0.000      1        -      -  Config::import

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My system:
XPpro SP1 with 512 Mb memory, an Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz with a bus speed of 797 MHz, activeperl v5.8.4 build 810.

I'm in well over my head, now. can anyone help me, please?

Thanks,
Spike.

In reply to Over a minute to do: use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel'; by spikey_wan

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