#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel; my $parse_excel = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new(CellHandler =>\&cell_handler,NotSetCell => 1); my $workbook = $parse_excel->Parse('file.xls'); sub cell_handler { my $workbook= $_[0]; my $sheet_index = $_[1]; my $row = $_[2]; my $col = $_[3]; my $cell= $_[4]; # Do something with the formatted cell value print $cell->{_Value}, "\n"; # I need to access the values here #print columns names: C1 ..C4 here #print values of C1 ..C4 here }