storing in arrays

[Ben Mouw]

I am relatively new to active perl and when I store values from a text file or excel file I can only store them as some other kind of format, either it is hexadecimal or an memory address.  The output looks like this Win32::OLE::Variant=SCALAR(0x1b9bd3c) when I execute this code. my $temp = $worksheet->Range("E6")->{'Value'}; printf $temp;   how can I change it to give me the actual value.    Thanks