RE: Invoke MS EXCELL From Perl

[murphy, daniel (BMC Eng)]

Here's what I've done to start an edit session from Perl:


use Win32::Process;

Win32::Process::Create($Process,
                "c:\\program files\\ultraedit\\uedit32.exe",
                "uedit32 $alljobs_list" ,
                0,
                DETACHED_PROCESS,
                ".")||  die "Creating UltraEdit process: $!";



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-----Original Message-----
From: Hewlett Pickens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:54 PM
To: zPerl Beginners
Subject: Invoke MS EXCELL From Perl


Is there a way to invoke Microsoft EXCELL from Perl?

Environment:
 
  Using IE on Windows 98, have invoked a CGI script on Linux/390 which sends
a comma separated variable (CSV) file back to IE, and the Perl script there
files it on the PC's hard drive.

  Want to do some line/bar/pie graphics on the PC.

  The GD module isn't available on the Windows version of Perl we have from
Active State: v5.6.1

  So, would like to invoke EXCELL to do some graphs and bar charts along
lines of

     start excell using abcd.xls

  "abcd.xls" would have a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) script to go
after and massage the CSV.

Thanks,

Hew

Hewlett M. Pickens

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