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Another option (albeit larger and slower) is to fully embrace the Dark Side:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict 'vars';
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE qw(with);
$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3;
my $Excel;
eval {$Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')};
die "Excel not installed" if $@;
unless (defined $Excel) {
  $Excel = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', sub {$_[0]->Quit;}) or
+ die "Cannot start Excel";
}
$Excel->{Visible} = 1;
my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Add;
my $Sheet = $Book->Worksheets(1);
my $Filename = "c:/windows/desktop/some.txt";
my $Tab = $Sheet->QueryTables->Add("TEXT;". $Filename, $Sheet->Range("
+A1"));
$Tab->{Name} = "Job Status";
with($Tab,
  FieldNames => 1,
  RowNumbers => 0,
  FillAdjacentFormulas => 0,
  PreserveFormatting => 1,
  RefreshOnFileOpen => 0,
  RefreshStyle => 1,                  # xlInsertDeleteCells
  SavePassword => 0,
  SaveData => 1,
  AdjustColumnWidth => 0,
  RefreshPeriod => 0,
  TextFilePromptOnRefresh => 0,
  TextFilePlatform => 2,              # xlWindows
  TextFileStartRow => 1,
  TextFileParseType => 1,              # xlDelimited
  TextFileTextQualifier => 1,            # xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote
  TextFileConsecutiveDelimiter => 0,
  TextFileTabDelimiter => 1,                   # Tabs!
  TextFileSemicolonDelimiter => 0,
  TextFileCommaDelimiter => 0,
  TextFileSpaceDelimiter => 0,
  TextFileColumnDataTypes => [1, 9, 9, 9, 1], # Not sure about this li
+ne
);
$Tab->  Refresh->{BackgroundQuery} = 0;
# Do what you normally do in excel here...
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Matthew Musgrove
Who says that programmers can't work in the Marketing Department?
Or is that who says that Marketing people can't program?

In reply to Re: Sorting Tab file by Mr. Muskrat
in thread Sorting Tab file by raj8

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