#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use XML::XPath; use Spreadsheet::Read; my $book = ReadData("C:/SLB/Dashboard/DCSS_Applications.xlsx"); my $sheet = $book->[1]; # first data sheet my @column = ($sheet->{cell}[3]); # 2nd column, unformatted #@column =~ s/EAR-AA-//; use feature 'say'; foreach my $row (@column) { for (@$row) { my $rowdata; #say $_ if (defined); $rowdata = @$row; say $rowdata =~ s/AR-AB-//; } }