Hi Monks!
I am trying to read a .XLS file to extract the data from its column and later insert them into a database, but the code is giving me a lot of uninitialized value messages. I just cant see where in the code it could be happening and why, here is the code, unless there is a better way of doing this!
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;

my $file = "../my_file.xls";

use vars qw($user_name $user_number $identification);

my $workbook = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook->Parse($file)or die "
+Unable to open $file\n";

foreach my $page (@{$workbook->{Worksheet}}) {
print "Page $page\n";

    foreach my $col ($page->{MinCol} .. $page->{MaxCol}) {
        if ($page->{Cells}[0][$col]->{Val} eq "User Name") {
            $user_name = $col;
            print "$user_name\n";
        }

        if ($page->{Cells}[0][$col]->{Val} eq "User Number") {
            $user_number = $col;
            print "$user_number\n";
        }

        if ($page->{Cells}[0][$col]->{Val} eq "Identification") {
            $identification = $col;
            print "$identification\n";
        }

    }

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

    my $got_user_name = $page->{Cells}[$row][$user_name]->{Val};
    my $got_user_number = $page->{Cells}[$row][$user_number]->{Val};
    my $got_identification = $page->{Cells}[$row][$identification]->{V
+al};

print "\n$got_user_name\n$got_user_number\n$got_identification\n";

    }

}

exit;

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