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This is sort of my fault, in that I program on the other side of linux machines, so I only have a basic knowledge of perl, and even though I've used $@ before, that thinking doesn't come automatically for that.

So now that you all reminded me of $@, the error makes sense, "No parser for XLSX found."

Am trying hard to install all the parsers, with CPAN. but I keep getting errors that I am missing a prerequisite, and eventually I get bad tests when installing modules from CPAN.

i.e.
Test Summary Report ------------------- t/prng_rc4.t (Wstat: 132 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero wait status: 132 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 19 tests but ran 0. Files=137, Tests=18549, 49 wallclock secs ( 4.46 usr 0.76 sys + 36.90 cusr 3.93 csys = 46.05 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 1/137 test programs. 0/18549 subtests failed. make: *** Makefile:1780: test_dynamic Error 255 MIK/CryptX-0.080.tar.gz make test -- NOT OK //hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try: reports MIK/CryptX-0.080.tar.gz

I'm guessing this is a question for another forum, like Stack Overflow, but isn't there a simple way to instal a perl module, and any dependents it requires?

Thanks for the original replies, at least I have a clue now

In reply to Re^2: Failing with ReadData from Spreadsheet::Read and need to find a way to debug by SergioQ
in thread Failing with ReadData from Spreadsheet::Read and need to find a way to debug by SergioQ

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