GrandFather, thanks for the tips. Yes I use strict and warnings. Also, I'd not heard of the declare when used (my) before, so I've been declaring all variables at the top of my program. Its a pain going back & forth, but I think it will help the next person, to see all fields at the outset. Right after my 'use' statements, I put the a string of  my $fieldname = 0  # What it's used for
sort of as a quick ref for the next person...even if it's me.
If I encounter the 1,"This... that you showed, I expect my array will just have 3 elements instead of the normal 10, and when I load the spreadsheet (via Win32::OLE), the other 7 cells in that row will be blank or 0.
I'll try the Text::CSV, but I wanted to learn the raw "under the covers" way to do it first... it's a character flaw. ;-) but I think I then understand better what's happening.
Thanks again. You folks have been a super help during this learning curve.

In reply to Re^2: Using Array of Arrays by Aim9b
in thread Using Array of Arrays by Aim9b

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