#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Spreadsheet::Read qw(ReadData); my $book = ReadData ('aveidotvalues-3.xlsx'); print Dumper $book; __END__ $ perl test.pl $VAR1 = [ { 'parsers' => [ { 'version' => '0.15', 'type' => 'xlsx', 'parser' => 'Spreadsheet::XLSX' } ], 'error' => undef, 'sheet' => {}, 'version' => '0.15', 'sheets' => 0, 'type' => 'xlsx', 'parser' => 'Spreadsheet::XLSX' } ];