Hello: I'm new to Perl and Perlmonks. I've been doing a lot of reading to prepare for an application (in Windows) in which I want to extract values from an Excel spreadsheet. Through some reading I've been able to get ideas about code fragments that seem to do what I need. However, I'm stuck on being able to access the values extracted from a spreadsheet using function Range. Here's the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';
$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3;                                # die on errors.
+..

my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')
    || Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');  # get already ac
+tive Excel
                                                      # application or
+ open new
                                                      
                                                  
#my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open("C:\\DOCUMENTS\\test.xls"); # open
+ Excel file
my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Openmy $Sheet = $Book->Worksheets(1);   
+                  # select worksheet number 1
my $array = $Sheet->Range("A1:B10")->{'Value'};        # get the conte
+nts
$Book->Close;

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I have not found a way to get the individual values out of $array. Everything works OK if the range is a single value, like "A1". However, when I change the range to something like ("A1:B10") I get errors or senseless data.

I suspect that I'm not indexing $array correctly, but I've not been able to figure out why, in spite of hours of searching through tutorials.

I would appreciate any help a more experienced monk could give as to how I can get to the individual values that I have extracted from the spreadsheet into $array.

Many thanks, and sorry about the long post.

Ralph

In reply to How can I access the values of an "array" extracted using Range by ralph

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