win32::ole ppt regexp

[lhoffmeyer]

I am trying to find a way to regexp ppt textboxes in a slide? I am trying this snippit although it does not work. $shape and $p2 are defined and I am using them for other things

foreach my $shape (in $p2->Slides(4)->Shapes()){
  if ($shape->{Type}==18)
    {$shape~=/members\=[0-9]{2,3}/members\=$b4r4/;}
}

I imagine there is something simple I have left out. Any suggestions?

Edit by dws to add <code> tags

[MZSanford]

I don't have time at the moment to whip up a sample bit of code to make sure this is the problem, but i think you are trying to substitute member=(\d+) with members=$b4r4, which really does need a s/// ... maybe you skipped the leading s ? does running under -w produce any useful messages ?

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[lhoffmeyer]

Yes, certainly I need the s///. Still doesn't work, though. It appears that no text is being captured to regexp. I changed script a bit but still is not working. No errors or messages but no output to print command either.

foreach my $shape (in $p2->Slides(4)->Shapes()){
  if ($shape->{Type}==18){
my $text = $shape->TextFrame->TextRange;
print "$text \n";
$shape =~s/members\=[0-9]{2,3}/members\=$b4r4/;
}
}

[MZSanford]

A few thoughts ...


• The regexp should probably be run against $text, not $shape.
• you should not need the in in your foreach loop
• You said the print is printing nothing ... are you seeing the new lines ? (maybe nothing = 18 ?)
• Last time i worked with Power Point (a month or so ago), i resorted to using perl -d, putting a break at a line similar to your foreach, and then using Data::Dumper to poke around for the text box i needed (which ended up being $Presentation->Slides(1)->Shapes->Title->TextFrame->TextRange->{Text})

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