Two things I see right off the bat: First, you've got nested loops (for(my $m=0; $m<$length; $m++) { for(my $l=2; $l<2990; $l++) { ...) for a simple string equality search, where the outer loop could be removed and replaced by a much faster hash lookup. Second, inside the loop, you're making a ton of OLE calls with $Sheet2->Cells($l,$Signalcolumn)->{'Value'} - it'd be better if you cache this in a local variable. Something like this (untested):

my %longNames = map { ($_=>1) } @longNames;
for my $l (2..2990) {
    my $v = $Sheet2->Cells($l, $Signalcolumn)->{'Value'};
    next unless length $v;
    if ( $longNames{$v} ) {
        $Sheet2->Cells($l, 100)->{'Value'} = "matched"; 
        print"\n***********Matched*************\n";
    }
}

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Update: Now tested, and I can confirm it runs much faster. Note that you really should Use strict and warnings, you've got a couple of undeclared variables like $startingrow.

In reply to Re: Xls reader (updated) by haukex
in thread Xls reader by sainky

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