in reply to Re^3: Scan cells in Excel active worksheet
in thread Scan cells in Excel active worksheet

Many thanks huck for the answer, which works fine for .xls files with the code:

my $FileName = "Excel Test File 1.xls";

my $parser   = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new();

my $workbook   = $parser->parse($FileName);

my $Res1=get_active_sheet($workbook);

But I have no idea how to get it to work with xlsx files, which, currently fails if I try the following:

my $FileName = "Excel Test File 1A.xlsx";

my $parser   = Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX->new();

my $workbook   = $parser->parse($FileName);

my $Res1=get_active_sheet($workbook);

gauss76

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Re^5: Scan cells in Excel active worksheet
by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Apr 06, 2017 at 13:47 UTC

    A quick peek through the source, and I spotted:

    my ($node) = $files->{workbook}->find_nodes('//s:workbookView'); my $selected = $node ? $node->att('activeTab') : undef; $workbook->{SelectedSheet} = defined($selected) ? 0+$selected : 0;
    Will $workbook->{SelectedSheet} work do the trick?

      Fantastic!!

      Many thanks for everyone's help with this...Special thanks must go to SuicideJunkie.

      The solution will really help me with my project.

      gauss76