use strict; 
    use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel; 
    my $parser = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new( 
        CellHandler => \&cell_handler, 
        NotSetCell  => 1 
    ); 
    my $workbook = $parser->Parse('testfile.xls'); 
    sub cell_handler { 
        my $workbook    = $_[0]; 
        my $sheet_index = $_[1]; 
        my $row         = $_[2]; 
        my $col         = $_[3]; 
        my $cell        = $_[4]; 
        print $cell->unformatted(), "\n"; 
    } 

##</code><code>##

D:\Perl\bin\search tool>perl testa.pl 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdb79 at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdbb1 at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xd83e at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdff8 at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdbff at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdd98 at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xd9bf at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdcd7 at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdde6 at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdabe at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdb71 at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xd912 at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdab0 at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
Unicode character 0xfdde is illegal at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ 
ParseExcel/FmtDefault.pm 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdc77 at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
substr outside of string at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel.pm 
line 1015. 
Use of uninitialized value in length at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ 
ParseExcel.pm line 1951. 
Use of uninitialized value $sTxt in unpack at D:/Perl/site/lib/ 
Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/FmtDefa 
substr outside of string at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel.pm 
line 1020. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdeec at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
UTF-16 surrogate 0xdd7e at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/ 
FmtDefault.pm line 81. 
substr outside of string at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel.pm 
line 1196. 
Use of uninitialized value in unpack at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ 
ParseExcel.pm line 1196. 
substr outside of string at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel.pm 
line 1196. 
Use of uninitialized value in unpack at D:/Perl/site/lib/Spreadsheet/ 
ParseExcel.pm line 1196. 
Out of memory! 
##</code><code>##

Perl version : 5.010000 
OS name : MSWin32 
Module versions: (not all are required) 
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel 0.49 
Scalar::Util 1.19 
Unicode::Map (not installed) 
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel (not installed) 
Parse::RecDescent (not installed) 
File::Temp 0.18 
OLE::Storage_Lite 0.18 
IO::Stringy 2.110