I have 20 files that I ran a perl parser on to delimit. (I had to do this because they were fixed width files, but excel did not import them properly.. ugh..) now I have a perl script which builds an excel document, names 20 sheets in that document based on the filenames of the parsed files. I have a regular expression which delimits the files, and drops them into an array.. @parsed_file. What I need now is a way to put this data into their respective excel sheets, while preserving the delimited format. Unfortunately the only way I know to insert this is to use $Sheet->Range("a1")->{'Value'} = "@file"; yada yada yada... This only does one thing for me.. Inserts the entire file array into the first row, but of course, it's not delimited... I am trying to avoid a complicated solution, I.E. putting data into excel row by row from a nasty regex.. Anyone know any quick way to use OLE to accomplish my goal? I have searched far and wide, but probably stopped just short of my goal, so now my solution rests with you.. I am using
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);

In reply to inserting parsed results into excel rows and columns in delimited format by meisterperl

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