Dear Monks,

I'm trying to insert a 4x4 array into an excel document. I've got as far as opening it, creating two sheets (for later) and inserting single cells. However... when I try to insert an array to a range it doesn't work. Would some kind soul be able to tell me where I'm going wrong?

My other question is, if I wanted to loop through this array from @array[0][0] to @array44 is there a way to reference the Excel cells by X and Y numerically rather than X alphabetically and Y numerically?

Would be much appreciated. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use strict;
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel'; 

$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3; # die on errors...
 
# get already active Excel application or open new
my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')
|| Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit'); 
 
my $excel_file = 'C:/work/james_test.xls';
 
# -e checks to see if the file exists
if (-e "$excel_file")
{ 
# open Excel file
my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open("$excel_file"); 

}
else{

$Excel->{Visible} = 0;
$Excel->{DisplayAlerts}=0;    #0 is hide alerts
$Excel->{SheetsInNewWorkBook} = 1;
my $Workbook = $Excel->Workbooks->Add();
my $sheet1 = $Workbook->Worksheets(1);
$sheet1->{Name} = "WorkSheet1";
my $sheet2 = $Workbook->Worksheets->Add();
$sheet2->{Name} = "WorkSheet 2";

my @average_values_table = (
       [ "1", "2", "3", "4" ],
       [ "5", "8", "7", "8"],
       [ "1", "2", "3", "4" ],
       [ "5", "8", "7", "8"],
);

$sheet1 -> Range("A1:D4") -> {Value} = @average_values_table;

$Workbook->SaveAs($excel_file);
$Workbook->Close();
$Excel->Quit(); 
}

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In reply to inserting a perl array into an Excel doc with OLE by james.f.williamson

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