Hi monks,

I've data in an Excel format and I would like to feed that data to mysql. I just discovered Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and found it to be really cool.

What I intend to do is to parse the excel file using ParseExcel and then have the perl script write the necessary sql statements into a source file. For instance, let's say I've two rows of data from Excel as follows: 

id joke          created      owner
1  joke one      2004-04-12   john
2  joke two      2004-04-11   nick

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The output from the perl script (using ParseExcel) will be saved to a insert source file and it will look something like: 
INSERT INTO JOKES VALUES('1', 'joke one', '2004-04-12', 'john');
INSERT INTO JOKES VALUES('2', 'joke two', '2004-04-11', 'nick');

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I will then use mysql command 'source name_of_file' to insert the data into a table.

I suppose I could have the script connect to the database and directly insert the data to the relevant table, thereby bypassing the step to create a mysql source file.

Am I on the right track? Is there perhaps a more direct conversion path from Excel to mysql?

Cheers and many thanks in advance :)

Update: Great thanks to all for your solutions and ideas!

In reply to From excel to mysql... by kiat

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