I'm trying to read an Excel file and I'm getting an error:
Software error:
Could not open Excel spreadsheet file 'test.xls': Bad file descriptor 
+at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Spreadsheet/BasicRead.pm line 306.
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I can open the Excel file in windows and it's okay.

Here's my read code straight out of the example in CPAN:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI;
use Spreadsheet::BasicRead;

my $cgi = CGI->new();

print $cgi->header;

my $xlsFileName = 'test.xls';

my $ss = new Spreadsheet::BasicRead($xlsFileName) ||
       die "Could not open '$xlsFileName': $!";

my $row = 0;
while (my $data = $ss->getNextRow())
{
   $row++;
   print join(',', $row, @$data), "\n";
}

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And here's my XLS file test.xls

Is it a problem with Spreadsheet::BasicRead or with my XLS file? Is there a workaround for this?

In reply to Spreadsheet::BasicRead - Open XLS Error??? by awohld

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