in reply to Win32::OLE Excel LastCol not working consistently

It's been a while since I did Excel interactions, but I recall using the xlLastCell special cell. For example:

# Get the last cell for the sheet (address returned as absolute)
my $last_cell = $worksheet->Range("A1")->EntireColumn->SpecialCells(xl
+CellTypeLastCell)->{Address};
my ($max_column, $max_row) = $last_cell =~ /\$(\w+)\$(\d+)/;

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Whether or not that's the most efficient way to do it... I don't know. I do also know that with some spreadsheets I ran into some very odd values -- the spreadsheet wasn't particularly large, but the last cell was reported as IT3991 or similar.

Added:
Some of the replies in this SoPW have similar approaches. Specifically, bmann's response seems to be a cleaner bit of code than my sample above.

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Re^2: Win32::OLE Excel LastCol not working consistently
by uvs (Novice) on Oct 25, 2007 at 19:47 UTC
    Thank you. I tried your code it did give some values but not right. The Column was right but row was not. I had last row at 109 but it gave me 1972.

    I also saw links you sent but doesnt answer the last row/col question. I thought there should be a function GetLastRow or GetLastCol - may be not!

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      Ok it works now!!
      This one particular worksheet had a formula that was not right and it was in column B so it only gave last column=1. After correcting the problem, the old code worked as expected. 
      my $LastRow = $sheet->UsedRange->Find({What=>"*",SearchDirection=>xlPr
+evious,SearchOrder=>xlByRows})->{Row};
 my $LastCol = $sheet->UsedRange->Find({What=>"*",SearchDirection=>xlP
+revious,SearchOrder=>xlByColumns})->{Column};

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