Hi, I am trying to read only the first worksheet of a large excel (2007) file (=xlsx) which has multiple worksheets. Based on pointers in the web, I am trying to use the cell_handler. But I don't think it is working. Perl is ignoring the cell_handler & parsing all sheets (& giving out-of-memory error). I am using Spreadsheets::ParseXLSX version 0.16 with Perl 5.10.

Any pointers welcome!

Thank you. 

use Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX ;
use strict;
 
my $parser = Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX->new(
        CellHandle => \&cell_handler,
        NotSetCell  => 1,
        );
 
print "Before Parser...\n" ;
my $workbook = $parser->parse('/path/to/my/xlsx') ;
print "After Parser...\n" ;
 
if ( !defined $workbook ) {
        print "Error parsing file... \n" ;
        die $parser->error(), ".\n";
        }
 
my $worksheet = $workbook->worksheet('my_first_sheet');
 
        print $worksheet->{Name} . "\n" ;
        my ( $row_min, $row_max ) = $worksheet->row_range();
        my ( $col_min, $col_max ) = $worksheet->col_range();
 
        for my $row ( $row_min .. $row_max ) {
                for my $col ( $col_min .. $col_max ) {
                        my $cell = $worksheet->get_cell( $row, $col );
                        next unless $cell;
                        print "Row, Col    = ($row, $col)\n";
                        print "Value       = ", $cell->value(),       
+"\n";
                        }
                }
 
 
sub cell_handler {
 
        my $workbook    = $_[0];
        my $sheet_index = $_[1];
        my $row         = $_[2];
        my $col         = $_[3];
        my $cell        = $_[4];
 
# Skip unwanted worksheets 
       if ( $sheet_index > 0 ) {
              $workbook->ParseAbort(1);
              print "sheet_index > 0... aborting extraction! \n" ;
              return;
        }
        print "Inside cell_handler...\n" ;
}

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In reply to Error parsing large xlsx by raja.ghosh

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