hi , i am trying to parse an excel sheet through a perl program ,the core goal is the replace the value in a text file from the values in the excel sheet based on a certain conditions but main probelm is that reading is not even happening from excel sheet itself ,i havent got much experience in accessnig excel sheets from perl ,i tried google search and cpan module pages but couldnt really get a proper ,i am posting my code below ,excel sheet is present there ,it seems i cant attach anything ,when i execute this program it runs successfully but doesnt give any output
use strict; use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel; my $excel = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook->Parse("C:\\au.xls"); my $excel_file_url; #start looping the Excel sheet foreach my $sheet (@{$excel->{Worksheet}}) { $sheet->{MaxRow} ||= $sheet->{MinRow}; foreach my $row ($sheet->{MinRow} .. $sheet->{MaxRow}) { #looping for each row if ($row > 1) { #get the file url path from excel sheet at corresponding row, + col 0 my $cell_value=$sheet->{Cells}[$row][0]; $excel_file_url=$cell_value->{Val}; print $excel_file_url; } } }

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