Hello
The following code snippet might help you in basic manipulation of the excel sheet 
    use strict;
    use Win32::OLE;
    # write a value in the first empty ro of the first column
    # an excel workbook containing a sheet called Versions 
    my $projsheet = 'c:\temp\t.xls'; 
    my $val = 123; 
    my $ex = new Win32::OLE 'Excel.Application' or die;
    eval ("\$ex->Workbooks->Open(\'$projsheet\')") or die;
    
    #
    # find empty row
    #
    my $rowcounter        = 1;
    my $rowval        = 1;
    while (($rowval) && ($rowcounter < 1000)) {
        $rowval    = eval "\$ex->Workbooks(1)->Worksheets(\'Versions\'
+)->Cells($rowcounter,1)->{Value}" ;
        $rowcounter++;        
    }
    $rowcounter--;        
    #
    # fill in the values in the sheet
    #
    
    eval "\$ex->Workbooks(1)->Worksheets(\'Versions\')->Cells($rowcoun
+ter,1)->{Value}= \'$val\'" ;
    
    #
    # save and quit
    #
    $ex->Save;
    $ex->Quit;
    
    return 1;

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You will further need to do some ad hoc scripting to avoid message boxes generated by Excel. A good starting point is to record the macro in Excel, look at it in VB and then mimic it in perl.
Tabari

In reply to Re: Scripting data extraction from excel files in a directory. by Tabari
in thread Scripting data extraction from excel files in a directory. by ark989

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