Hello,

Well, I have this website that lets us download excel files. To me, this is the only data source I have to publish.

Now, I can't just offer the excel files for my users to dl nor can I make a script that saves each excel file as html and then have a little perl script handle the output of those .html files generated.

The thing is, I can only publish certain parts of the excel file. For example, publish rows 2a to 5a. This is why I need Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. It handles the receiving of certain parts of the excel file pretty well.

Now as to the first reply, I do know that Spreadsheet::ParseExcel has a format and font class. But it can't retreive it all. For example a cell with the format of "general" can either be align left or right. Also cells with a border style outline can not be intepreted since theres no format for it. Also the width, height, spacing of cells can not be retreived either.

I think I can only parse an excel file and format it into a html table to a certain limit.

Perhaps I can take a excel file and use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel to parse the certain rows and columns, then make a new spreadsheet, and save as .html file?

If I find a solution to display "exact detail format from an excel file", I'll post back.

Cheers,
Larry

In reply to Re: Parsing Excel Files while maintaining format by Anonymous Monk
in thread Parsing Excel Files while maintaining format by Anonymous Monk

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