use Spreadsheet::Read; our $workbook = ReadData("tmp.xls", debug => 9); my ($i,$j)=0; my @cell; for($i=1;$i<3;$i++){ for($j=1;$j<7;$j++){ $cell[$j] = cr2cell($j, $i); print $workbook->[1]{$cell[$j]}; print ","; } print "\n"; }