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i am using the Win32:OLE to work with a excelsheet. I need to enter a formula in a cell. the formula is 
=IF(A1=B1,"PASS","FAIL")

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i am using 
 $Sheet->Cells(3,1)->{Value} = "=IF(A1=B1,"PASS","FAIL")";

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i am getting an error 
"Win32::OLE(0.1703)error 0x80020009" "Exception occured"
in PROPERTYPUT "Value" at excel.plx line 37

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how do i enter the formula in the sheet ?

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Re: how to enter formula in excel
by Samy_rio (Vicar) on Feb 14, 2006 at 09:14 UTC

    Hi, Try this,

    $Sheet->Cells(3,1)->{Value} = "=IF(A1=B1,\"PASS\",\"FAIL\")";

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    Untested

    Updated Tested code as

        use Win32::OLE;
    use strict;
    use warnings;

     my $ex;
    eval {$ex = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')};
    die "Excel not installed" if $@;
    unless (defined $ex) {
        $ex = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', sub {$_[0]->Quit;})
            or die "Oops, cannot start Excel";
    }
 
    my $book = $ex->Workbooks->Add;                
    my $sheet = $book->Worksheets(1);
    $sheet->Cells(1,1)->{Value} = "foo";    
   $sheet->Cells(1,2)->{Value} = "foo";    
  
   $sheet->Cells(3,1)->{Value} = "=IF(A1=B1,\"PASS\",\"FAIL\")";      
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   $book->SaveAs( 'test.xls' );
     
__END__
foo    foo

PASS

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    I am not familiar with Excel. So i have just created a new excel sheet.

    Regards,
    Velusamy R.

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Re: how to enter formula in excel
by McDarren (Abbot) on Feb 14, 2006 at 09:20 UTC
    I've never used Win32::OLE, but just from looking at what you've posted I'd guess that you need to properly escape the quotes in your string. Try this: 
    $Sheet->Cells(3,1)->{Value} = "=IF(A1=B1,\"PASS\",\"FAIL\")";

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    Cheers,
    Darren :)
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      Or rather:

      $Sheet->Cells(3,1)->{Value} = q/=IF(A1=B1,"PASS","FAIL")/;

      Please don't ever actually write a string in Perl with escaped embedded quotes.

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