So I've got all these Excel spreadsheet that I don't want to manually enter into a DB one at a time, so I got this nifty module called Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and started learning it.

However, when I do this: 

for (my $row = 0; $row <= $tdb->{MaxRow}; $row++) {
    my $cell = $tdb->{Cells}[$row][0];
    my $value = $cell->Value;
    print FH "$value\n";
}

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I'm getting this message: Can't call method "Value" on an undefined value at spacebase.pl line 36.

MaxRow is giving back a value higher than the actual maximum row value. Now, I've come up with a workaround--I'll just wrap my $value = $cell->Value; in an eval and use that to terminate the loop, which is a good idea for other reasons--but I'm curious whether anyone else has experience with this module and knows what might be going on. My guess is that the module is returning a valid number and my spreadsheet is goofy--any other thoughts?

adamsj

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In reply to Spreadsheet::ParseExcel MaxRow giving funky results by adamsj

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