UPDATE: I had a bug in the code, ParseExcel actually pulled the results of the formula very nicely, then I accidentally over-wrote it - D'OH!

Most holy of holies,

I have a program that reads in an Excel Spreadsheet, massages some data, and creates a new spreadsheet. I just noticed that when I read in a cell that contains a formula (SUM of some cells), it appears to be blank (or null). Is there a way to pull the formula from the cell? Preferably would like the evaluated answer, but the formula itself will suffice in a pinch. Some code snippets below...

my $inputfile = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook->Parse($ExcelFileIn)
+;
my $insheet = $inputfile->Worksheet(0);
foreach $row ($insheet->{MinRow} .. $insheet->{MaxRow}) {
    foreach $col ($insheet->{MinCol} ..  $insheet->{MaxCol}) {
        my $cell = $insheet->{Cells}[$row][$col];
        ... do some stuff with $cell ...
    }
}

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Many thanks for your insight...

Pete

In reply to Can Spreadsheet::ParseExcel extract formulas? by petecm99

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