Hello Perl Monks,

I've been playing around with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and have had success extracting info from a vertical table. I am now looking at extracting info from a horizontal table which is not completely bound. So was hoping someone here has some advice for me:

My scenario is:

I have an excel spreadsheet with 3 sheets. Sheet1,Salary has the below:

Name, Salary in columns B & C. Extending 10 rows. 

Name,   Mon-DD
Monica    104,000
Meredith  110,000
Brian     92,000
Madeline  112,0000
Averie    140,0000

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The above is pretty straightforward to extract

The same spreadsheet has the below data 

 Col E through J

Row 6 Col E   ColF     ColG     ColH   ColI     Col J
Row 7         Monica   Meredith Brian  Madeline Averie
Row 8         104,000  110,000   92,000  112,000  140,000
Row9
Row 10 Salary  100,000  105,000   85,000 110,000  125,000
Row 11 Salary%  75%      71%       80%    81%     69%
Row 12
Row 13 Bonus    4,000    5,000    7,000   2,000    15,000
Row 14 Bonus%    10%      20%     10%     2%       14%

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Now my questions, what is the best way I can parse this data using SpreadSheet::ParseExcel and store the results in a table of the below structure. How do I make sure that the Salary, Salary%, Bonus, Bonus% are tying to the same name? 

 Name  Total_Salary Salary Salary%  Bonus Bonus%
       Monica
       Meredith
       Brian
       Madeline
       Averie

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I'm hoping to do this without using any VBA or Excel specific tools. Any guidance using this library will be greatly appreciated. I apologize in advance if the formatting seems off or if the question itself sounds vague. Thanks for your help in advance

Regards, Simak

In reply to Parsing horizontal table in Excel & loading it into a database by simak29

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