in reply to Re: Xlxs Parsing Issue
in thread Xlxs Parsing Issue

There already is Spreadsheet::XLSX, which conveniently reads .xlsx files.

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Re^3: Xlxs Parsing Issue
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Nov 07, 2013 at 12:58 UTC

    Corion:

    Yes, I should have mentioned that package. I tried using it a few times, but each time it was for such an overly-large excel file that I always ran out of RAM when parsing it. (Not the module's fault--more the fault of people trying to use Excel as a mass data-transport mechanism.)

    ...roboticus

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