Indeed!

I had recently installed OpenOffice figuring to try it out sometime, so this became the time...

Took two minutes to convert from .xls to .xml (spreadsheet is about 4MB), plus it is a manual step, so that would mean that of the 9 minutes of remaining time, reading .xml could save at most 7, because of the need to convert .xls to .xml first.

Is there anything around that is similar to Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, for the .xml files, or would this be a brand new project starting from scratch (and the XML parser)?

Might it not be easier to add comment parsing to Spreadsheet::ParseExcel? I haven't looked at its internals, and I currently know nothing of the Excel file format except that it seems to be documented somewhere, using a format called BIFF (which conjures up potential relationships of something called TIFF, but that may be coincidental)... so that might be like a brand new project starting from scratch too...

In reply to Re^2: Read Excel cell comments? by AlwaysLearning
in thread Read Excel cell comments? by AlwaysLearning

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