Update: I am curious...The problem appears to be that multiple folks need the current values of a spreadsheet on a daily basis. Instead of parsing the spreadsheet and emailing results, why isn't the idea to post this spreadsheet on a website so that each user can just login and see current status whenever they wish? I am wondering if the "right" question is being asked?

Update2: in the Chatterbox, I got turned onto Spreadsheet::Read. That looks extremely promising.

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I am also currently working on a spreadsheet parsing problem at the moment, There are a number of confusing options for reading spreadsheets. Win32::OLE is one of them. There are other ways to read the spreadsheet file (.xls,.xlsx) directly. I haven't found a great option yet, but there are some out there.

This google search perl+spreadsheet+xlsx turned up some interesting stuff.

Yesterday to get started, I implemented some code with an old module (Spreadsheet::DataFromExcel) that can only read .xls files, but this was very easy and got me past a blocking point and onto the more difficult parts of my current assignment.

use Spreadsheet::DataFromExcel;
my $p = Spreadsheet::DataFromExcel->new;
my $web = $p->load('Roster.xls', 'For Web',3) or die $p->error;
# $web is ref to AoA for that sheet

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This is all the functionality that I need, except that it doesn't work with .XLSX. Maybe some Monk here can advise on the easiest way to get that 2 lines of functionality with .XLSX? If so, then that probably satisfies both of our requirements.

In reply to Re: Excel file data - mail by Marshall
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