$ cat pm1178127.pl #!/pro/bin/perl use 5.18.0; use warnings; use Spreadsheet::Read; my $book = ReadData ("julia-good.xlsx"); say "Book was parsed using $book->[0]{parser}-$book->[0]{version}"; say "A1: ", $book->[1]{A1}; my @rows = Spreadsheet::Read::rows ($book->[1]); foreach my $i (1 .. scalar @rows) { foreach my $j (1 .. scalar @{$rows[$i-1]}) { say chr (64 + $i) . " $j " . ($rows[$i - 1][$j - 1] // ""); } } $ xlscat julia-good.xlsx id|text 1|a 2|b 3|c 4|d 5|e 6|f 7|g 8|h 9|i 10|j 2 x 11 $ perl pm1178127.pl Book was parsed using Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX-0.27 A1: id A 1 id A 2 text B 1 1 B 2 a C 1 2 C 2 b D 1 3 D 2 c E 1 4 E 2 d F 1 5 F 2 e G 1 6 G 2 f H 1 7 H 2 g I 1 8 I 2 h J 1 9 J 2 i K 1 10 K 2 j $