Hello to all the Perl Monks out there!

I wish to parse information from an excel file and print it out in a HTML table to be displayed for my users.

As of now I'm using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel

I'm not sure if its just my skill level or the module. I'm also not sure if there any other modules better capable of doing what I need to do then this.

Basically, the script I have now parses the info. pretty well. However, I would like the printed results to contain the same exact formatting Excel has. For example, if you save the excel file as a .html file, the HTML file it generates replicates the excel format pretty darn well (same font, same margin widths, same table widths, same text color, same font weight , etc.).

My script now does not replicate it well. Althought it parses the right text and data, the formatting is way off. The alignment of certain columns dont fit, the font-weight and text are different which leaves me with a ugly looking table in HTML.

Does anyone know a better Excel module for what I need? Or should I stick with this module and see if I can get the format right? I tried for the last 2-3 hours and I have given up hope. So now I seek wisdom from this board. Thanks for taking your time to read this post.

Cheers,
Larry

2006-10-07 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Parsine Excel Files while maintaining format'

In reply to Parsing Excel Files while maintaining format by Anonymous Monk

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