I read your post about the reducing memory usage by avoiding the formating data. In fact, thatīs a great idea, and I really donīt want the formating data in these worksheets. But Iīm having trouble in fitting the code into mine. Can you or any of the fellow monks take a look?

Do I have to replace the names of the variables of the sub cell_handler?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI qw( :standard);

use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;


# The new objects

my $q = new CGI;

my $oExcel = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new( CellHandler => \&cell_handl
+er,
                                           NotSetCell => 1     );



# McNamara's alternative cell handler

sub cell_handler {

   my $workbook    = $_[0];
   my $sheet_index = $_[1];
   my $row         = $_[2];
   my $col         = $_[3];
   my $cell        = $_[4];
   
   print $cell->{Val} , "<br>"; 

}




# The header

print $q->header( -type => "text/html");



     # Starting the cronometer

     $start = (times) [0];


# The reading

# my $file = "z4kjasdf.xls";
 my $file = "acervo15k.xls";
# my $file = "teste1.xls";


my $oBook = $oExcel->Parse($file);

my($iR, $iC, $oWkS, $oWkC);

my @thisrow;


# Just the first worksheet...

$oWkS = $oBook->{Worksheet}[0];


for ( $iR = $oWkS->{MinRow} ; defined $oWkS->{MaxRow} && $iR <= $oWkS-
+>{MaxRow}; $iR++) {

   @thisrow = ();   

   for ( $iC = $oWkS->{MinCol}; defined $oWkS->{MaxCol} && $iC <= $oWk
+S->{MaxCol}; $iC++) {

      $oWkC = $oWkS->{Cells}[$iR][$iC];
      
       if ($oWkC) { 

          push (@thisrow, $oWkC->{Val}); 
          
       }


   }

   my ($col1, $col2, $col3, $col4, @othercols) = @thisrow;
   
   print "$col1 <br>";

}  



     # Ending the cronometer

     $end = (times) [0];



print "<b>$iR rows read in " , $end-$start , " seconds";
[download]

André