Hi,

I'm working on automating some reporting taking data from oracle and copying into excel via OLE using Perl. I can copy a data set to a new sheet, or to a defined range in an existing sheet, but I'd like to be able to copy data from a data set to a range defined by the scalar size of the array to be copied. 

# Read data from excel
my $array = $sheet -> Range("A2:C7") -> { 'Value' };
# Copy data into excel (add using a script)
foreach my $line (@$array) {
  for (my $row = 0; $row < (scalar(@$array)+1); $row++) {
    foreach my $element (@$line) {
      for (my $col = 0; $col < scalar(@$line); $col++) {
        $sheet -> Cells(($row+10),($col+1)) -> {Value} = @$element [$c
+ol];
      }
    }
  }
}

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This script gives the following error: "Can't use string ("Delivered") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at perl_ole.pl line 38." -- line 38 being the line above that starts "$sheet ->".

Thanks for the help, Joe

Code tags added by GrandFather

In reply to Copying data sets of varying size into excel using OLE by Anonymous Monk

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