my $zip = Archive::Zip->new( $infile ); my $content = $zip->contents('content.xml'); my $workbook_ref = read_xml_string($content); foreach my $sheet ( sort keys %$workbook_ref ) { foreach my $row( @{$$workbook_ref{$sheet}} ) { foreach my $cell_contents (@{$row}){ next unless defined( $cell_contents ); DECODE $cell_contents SOMEHOW