Hi Monks, I am pretty new to perl and am having trouble deciphering how to use the Spreadsheet::XLSX module. The synopsis is this: 
 use Text::Iconv;
 my $converter = Text::Iconv -> new ("utf-8", "windows-1251");
 
 # Text::Iconv is not really required.
 # This can be any object with the convert method. Or nothing.

 use Spreadsheet::XLSX;
 
 my $excel = Spreadsheet::XLSX -> new ('test.xlsx', $converter);
 
 foreach my $sheet (@{$excel -> {Worksheet}}) {
 
        printf("Sheet: %s\n", $sheet->{Name});
        
        $sheet -> {MaxRow} ||= $sheet -> {MinRow};
        
         foreach my $row ($sheet -> {MinRow} .. $sheet -> {MaxRow}) {
         
                $sheet -> {MaxCol} ||= $sheet -> {MinCol};
                
                foreach my $col ($sheet -> {MinCol} ..  $sheet -> {Max
+Col}) {
                
                        my $cell = $sheet -> {Cells} [$row] [$col];
 
                        if ($cell) {
                            printf("( %s , %s ) => %s\n", $row, $col, 
+$cell -> {Val});
                        }
 
                }
 
        }
 
 }

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My first problem is that when I search for Text::Iconv through my Perl Package Manager, I can't find it.

My second problem is I don't think I am reading the synopsis correctly. If I want to read in all of column A from c:\perl.xlsx how would I do that?

Also, does anyone know of a module to write to a .xlsx file?

Thanks in advance!

In reply to Read in .xlsx by perl_n00b

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