Hi Monks,

I am newbie to Perl. I need help with following,

I need to write a tool on UNIX using Perl that reads 2 Excel workbooks. It should read a row of data from the
first workbook and extract data from each column of that row. Then it needs to search for data from two of
the columns in that row in another excel workbook. If it finds a match, then it should generate a command
based on all the extracted column values and write it into a new text file.

I don't know how to open and read data from excel workbook. If there are more then one spreadsheets in the workbook, how to read data from each sheet at a time?

I would really appreciate all the help I can get.

Thanks.

In reply to Parsing Excel Workbook by perlbond

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