Hello Monks,

I am looking for a way to read data from excel sheet by using either a column header name or a row header name.. What I currently use is as below:
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';
my $wks = $wkb->Worksheets(1);
my $FirstName = $wks->Cells(18,3)->{'Value'};

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In the above way, I have to go by the row and column numbers. In case the column for first name changes, I need to change my script. That is why I am looking for a way to point to a cell using its column name/row name.

Regards,
J

note: I am using ActiveState perl 5.10 on WinXP

In reply to reading data from Excel sheet using column/row names by Anonymous Monk

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