The forward slash to backslash is the way things work on windows -- I always use forward slashes in path names and Perl happily flips them to backslashes when it talks to the windows. The program {as y'all will see} shows what the parse returned and that's exactly right. I put in the 'open' to double-check that the hardwired excel path was correct.

I neglected to include that this is with Strawberry Perl running on a win10/64 system. Here's the little test program: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use v5.10 ;
use strict;
use warnings ;
use Excel::Table ;

use constant WORKBOOK => "d:/desktop/testWB.xlsx" ;

# test if the path works
open(P, "<", WORKBOOK)
    or die "Can't find the workbook: $!\n" ;
close P ;

my $xs = getWB(WORKBOOK) ;
exit ;

sub getWB
{   my ($dir, $wb) = $_[0] =~ /(.*)\/(.*)/ ;
say "Directory is $dir" ;
say "Excel file is $wb" ;
    my $xs = Excel::Table->new(dir => $dir) ;
    $xs->open($wb)  ;
    return $xs ;
}

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I don't know how to upload the Excel worksheet that the file needs {anything will do, since I am only trying to open it and {for the nonce} don't care about whats *in* the file}, but when I run the program I get. 
d:\Desktop>testWb.pl
Directory is d:/desktop
Excel file is testWB.xlsx
Log4perl: Seems like no initialization happened. Forgot to call init()
+?

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In reply to Re^2: Help with Excel::Table by BernieC
in thread Help with Excel::Table by BernieC

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