Dear Monks,

I have used Perl to develop a parser which parses test cases that are specified in an Excel sheet. Now i have used Win32::OLE module for parsing the excel sheet and i have learned using the module the hard way. I couldn't find much detailed documentation for the OLE(module). Recently one of my colleagues wanted to develop a tool that involves parsing of excel sheets i suggested Perl to him. But within 2 days he came back to me saying that he decided to stick to python as the language of primary choice and he quoted lack of documentation as the reason for the same. He even referred a site http://www.python-excel.org/ to me saying that it had everything that a beginner needed to get started with excel manipulation. Now this left me in awe and a little sadness considering the learning curve i had to go through to develop the tool that i did. Really is there any similar site for Perl where excel manipulations are documented as in depth as compared to python community's??

regards, A Sad seeker of wisdom

In reply to Using Win32::OLE by vishnu.h

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