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in reply to WriteExcel and formulas

The code you show should work. I fleshed it out to a working example(*) and it shows the correct MAX and AVERAGE for valid cell ranges. If the cell range is empty then the result will be zero/#DIV0! like the corresponding Excel formula:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel; use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Utility; my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new( 'test.xls' ); my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet(); $worksheet->write( 'B2', 3 ); $worksheet->write( 'B3', 5 ); my @cols = ( 1, 2 ); my $row = 3; my $i = 1; for ( @cols ) { my $s = xl_rowcol_to_cell( 1, $i ); my $e = xl_rowcol_to_cell( $row - 1, $i ); my $range = "$s:$e"; print "$i:Range:$range\n"; $worksheet->write_formula( $row, $i, '=MAX(' . $range . ') +' ); $worksheet->write_formula( $row + 1, $i, '=AVERAGE(' . $range +. ')' ); $i++; } __END__

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel does sometimes mis-parse complex formulae resulting in an invalid 0 result. However, that isn't the case here.

* You should have done this when asking the questing. It only takes a few extra lines of code.

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John.