Hello PerlMonks,

I have been trying to parse a .xls and another .xlsx file using the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX modules

When I dump the contents of both the files into two different files, the structure of the hash generated is very different, I wanted to know what exactly is the difference between the two parsers.

My code goes like this,

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::XLSX;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
use Data::Dumper;

my $Output_FileName = 'outfile.txt';
my $Output_FileName1 = 'outfile1.txt';
my $excel = Spreadsheet::XLSX -> new ('book1.xlsx');
my $parser   = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new();
my $workbook = $parser->parse('book2.xls');

open(my $FH, '>', $Output_FileName) or die "Could not open file '$Outp
+ut_FileName' $!";
    print $FH Dumper(\$excel);
    close $FH;
    
open(my $FH1, '>', $Output_FileName1) or die "Could not open file '$Ou
+tput_FileName1' $!";
    print $FH1 Dumper(\$excel);
    close $FH1;
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Is there a better way to dump both the files so that I can compare the two dumped files? In my case the files were mostly full of information like font etc...

Thank you!