This is a great solution if your site is hosted on a Lose321 system, but not as useful on UNIX/Linuxen.

More often, I find myself receiving data in spreadsheet form and having to somehow manipulate it in perl before inserting it into a database, or vice versa.

I have found it to be fairly cumbersome to save the individual worksheets from an Excel workbook file (*.xls) as CSV files. Once this is done, of course, using either DBI::CSV or just straight Perl to manipulate the data is simple and straightforward (and probably not worthy of further discussion).

The reverse direction is even more cumbersome: putting several CSV files into a workbook as separate worksheets.

Anyone know of a portable library (preferably with a Perl module interface) for directly manipulating Excel workbook files? It would have to work on UNIX (Solaris, and maybe Linux).

Thanks, dmm

Just call me the Anti-Gates ...

1 Lose32 - I first saw this term used by Al Stevens in his C Programming column in Dr. Dobbs Journal sometime in 2000, I forget exactly when.

In reply to Re: Excel Spreadsheet Data Set by dmmiller2k
in thread Excel Spreadsheet Data Set by rob_au

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