I have a mathcad file that calculates two scaler answers based upon 3 input arrays. And I was hoping someone here would be kind enough to help me out getting this thing to work.

Looking online, I stubled across the perl module WIN32::OLE and then going through the mathcad help file it says that mathcad can interface with OLE programs to inclue those the user creates. So, basically I found the key but I am not sure how to use it. I looked over the example code given (which is for excel and not mathcad) and salvaged what I could from it.

To make sure we are on the same page lets call the input @Array1, @Array2, and @Array3 and the answers $Answer1 and $Answer2. The name of the mathcad sheet lets just call it Trial.xmcd and suppose the path if needed is c:\documents and settings\desktop.

Based upon example code I put this together so far but after this I am completly clueless on how to put everything in or get anything out out 

 #!/usr/ym/util/perl
use Win32::OLE;


#use existing instance if mathcad is already running
eval {$ex = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Mathcad.Application')};
die "Mathcad not installed" if $@;
unless (defined $ex)
{
    $ex = Win32::OLE->new('Mathcad.application', sub{$_[0]->Quit;})
    or die "Unable to start Mathcad";
}

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Thank you in advance for any help you can give,
Aaron

In reply to WIN32::OLE interface to Mathcad by forgedascendant

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