Hi, I am using excel 2003 Active Perl 5.8.8 Build 817 and cannot get the UsedRange syntax (as Per Perl Monks tips example) to work. When I use Strict I fail with a run time compile error for xlprevious. When I don't use Strict I get a type mismatch error on SearchDirection. When I initially installed the OLE module I also got a version control issue and had to change the OLE.PM hard coded version from 1704 to 1403.

I can confirm that excel is installed as I can perform other excel functions ... it mainly seems related to the xlnnnnn type parameters. I previously had success with this code with different version of excel and active state perl 5.6.

Please Help.

This is the essence of my code 

#!C:/Perl/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw(:standard);
use Win32::OLE qw(in valof with);
use Win32::OLE::Variant;
use Win32::OLE::NLS qw(:LOCALE :DATE);

use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';

$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3;       # die on errors...

my $DateFormat = "DDD mmm dd, yyyy -- hh:mm:ss";

# Directory to store uploaded customer files
my $uploadc_dir = "E:/Inetpub/wwwroot/someplace/somefilelib";
my $query = new CGI;

my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')
   || Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');

$Excel->{DisplayAlerts}=0;
my $IBook = $Excel->Workbooks->Open("E:\\afile");

# select worksheet number 1 (you can also select a worksheet by name) 
+and activate it
my $ISheet = $IBook->Worksheets(1);
$ISheet->Activate();
# Find last row and last column
my $LastRow = $ISheet->UsedRange->Find({What=>"*",
    SearchDirection=>xlPrevious,
   SearchOrder=>xlByRows})->{Row};


my $LastCol = $ISheet->UsedRange->Find({What=>"*",
    SearchDirection=>xlPrevious,
     SearchOrder=>xlByColumns})->{Column};

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Edited 2 Apr 2006 (~21:30 PDT) by footpad: Added rudimentary formatting tags.

In reply to Win32:OLE UsedRange error 0x80020005: "Type mismatch" by Anonymous Monk

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