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guys, I have written a perl script using Win32::OLe module. I was able to read it completly. but I have to specify the number of rows in excel sheet as command line option. I want to know how to retrieve number of rows of the excel sheet and number of columns also. i tried to retrieve the properties using the each methode. see below

I am trying to replace the word "test" in a file with the word "Change" without creating a new file using the following code: #! /usr/bin/perl -w open (IN, "+</path/to/file/test.html"); while (<IN>){ s/test/Change/; print IN;

Hi, Im a complete noob to perl. Is there a way to convert array values into a string? For example @myarr=("Sample","test","Array"); My desired output: "SampletestArray" To then work with as a string. I know I could just specify piece by piece but thats just too much and

Note: You may skip to the end of the article if all you want is the perl code. Introduction Many websites have a form or a link you can use to download a file. You click a form button or click on a link and after a moment or two a file download dialog box pops-up in your web browser and prompts you for some instructions, such as “open” or...

**NOTE: This article is written using the 5.8.8 Alpha2 release of Strawberry Perl. I am writing this article with much joy and glee. This is due to the fact that Active State no longer has a monopoly on the issue of Perl on the Windows platform As anyone who code's Perl on the Windows platform knows, the choice that you have (had) for Perl...

Hallo everyone, I have a perl script which can return error codes. I have done this with, for example, 'exit 11;', which would (I imagine) send the exit code 11 (instead of 0) back to the calling program. I would now like to check that my error codes are being returned correctly and so wanted to write a short script to test this. Here I...

On execution of #!/usr/bin/perl $val = 4; for ($i=0;$i<=$val;$i++) { print "$i\n"; sleep(1); } the output is 0

Probably been mentioned before but I fail to see why Perl changed the 'break' keyword to 'last', in loops. Bear with me on this - it seems semantically more accurate to say 'break' - you're immediately breaking out of the loop. 'last' makes it sound like the current loop will be the last, but not that the execution should be stopped...