Win32::OLE - filtering out ms word formatting characters

2007-05-11 Thread jagdish eashwar
Hi, I am attempting to transfer data from a word table to Excel using Win32::OLE. I am able to do it with the following piece of code, but I am getting two little boxes after the text in each of the Excel cells. I presume these are Word formatting characters. How can I filter these out? I am

RE: Win32::OLE - filtering out ms word formatting characters

2007-05-11 Thread Jan Dubois
I guess these will just be CR/NL characters. You should be able to strip them in Perl, e.g. with $wordcell = $tbl-Cell($row,$col)-Range-{Text}; $wordcell =~ s/[\x00-\x1f]//g; $sheet-Cells($row,$col)-{Value} = $wordcell; Cheers, -Jan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL