I am attempting to convert a script I found on google to my purposes: (http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/reading-native-excel-files-perl). My script doesn't seem to actually read the spreadsheet I am specifying so I don't get any of my print statements after line 35. My output is as follows: 
Sinn:/lebensraum/perl # ./excel.syr.extract.pl \lebensraum\perl\SAMRep
+ort.xls 
Made it so far 
HASH(0xc682e0)

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So my $worksheet variable prints as a HASH - which could be right but seems wrong to me. I have added a bunch of print statements in an effort to debug the problem, but most of those don't print. The DBI connection and insert statements work so I am not concerned about my mysql connection. My sense is the $workbook = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook->Parse("\\lebensraum\\perl\\SAMReport.xls")or die "Unable to open $file\n"; statement is failing somehow but not in a way that reports an error. However, I am new to this module so I could easily be doing something else wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hagen Finley
Boulder, CO
#!/usr/bin/perl

use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;
use CGI;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;

# CONFIG VARIABLES
$platform = "mysql";
$database = "smdb";
$host = "Sinn";
$port = "3306";
$tablename = "site";
$user = "user";
$pw = "password";

#DATA SOURCE NAME
$dsn = "dbi:mysql:smdb:localhost:3306";

# PERL DBI CONNECT (RENAMED HANDLE)
$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pw)or die "Unable to connect: $DBI::
+errstr\n";

#$dbh->do("insert into site (siteid,name,city) values
#        (12345, \'BXB-200\',\'Boxborough\')");

#$cgi = new CGI;

$file = "\\lebensraum\\perl\\SAMReport.xls";

print "$file\n";

$workbook = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook->Parse("\\lebensraum\\pe
+rl\\SAMReport.xls")or die "Unable to open $file\n";

print "Made it so far\n";
print "$workbook\n";

#locate columns in the spreadsheet from which we want to extract data
foreach $sheet (@{$workbook->{worksheet}}) {
print "Sheet number $sheet\n";

    foreach $col ($sheet->{MinCol} .. $sheet->{MaxCol}) {
        if ($sheet->{Cells}[0][$col]->{Val} eq "Site Number") {
            $siteid = $col;
            print "$siteid\n";}
        #else print "Could not find column Site Number\n";}

        if ($sheet->{Cells}[0][$col]->{Val} eq "Site Name") {
            $name = $col;
            print "$name\n";}
        #else print "Could not find column Site Name\n";}

        if ($sheet->{Cells}[0][$col]->{Val} eq "City") {
            $city = $col;
            print "$city\n";}
        #else print "Could not find column City\n";}
    
        
}

print"Column find completed successfully - moving on to row find\n";

#iterate through spreadsheet rows and extract site.siteid,site.name & 
+site.city

foreach $row ($sheet->{MinRow}+1 .. $sheet->{MaxRow}) {

    $site_number = $sheet->{Cells}[$row][$siteid]->{Val};
    $site_name = $sheet->{Cells}[$row][$name]->{Val};
    $site_city = $sheet->{Cells}[$row][$city]->{Val};

    print "$site_number\n";
    print "$site_name\n";
    print "$site_city\n";


    $dbh->do("insert into site (siteid,name,city) values
        (\$site_number, \'$site_name\',\'$site_city')");
}

#print $cgi->header();

#print <<EOF
#<html>
#<head>
#<title>Data has been uploaded
#<head>
#<body>
#Thank you.
#</body>
#</html>
#EOF
#;
}
exit;

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