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Manipulating Excel Using Perl.

Hi all.

Please excuse my ignorance here, but is it possible and / or efficient to do things such as insert worksheets, make charts, pivot tables, filter data in an excel workbook using Perl?

I'm trying to establish whether I have a better option than VBA.

Thanks.
Mar 19 '08 #1
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Hi all.

Please excuse my ignorance here, but is it possible and / or efficient to do things such as insert worksheets, make charts, pivot tables, filter data in an excel workbook using Perl?

I'm trying to establish whether I have a better option than VBA.

Thanks.
Not sure about pivot tables. But, the other tasks(inserting worksheets,charts & filtering) can be done using Perl.

Have a look at Spreadsheet::Writeexcel .
Mar 19 '08 #2
Hi
Thanks for the response, but if not PERL than which programming language would be best for manipulating excel in a more efficient and flexible way than VBA?

Some have told me that ASP is the best for this? Is this right?

Thanks in advance.
Mar 19 '08 #3

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