I am trying to write a script that pulls some data out of certain columns in a spreadsheet and loads them into an array for comparing and updating. I am having trouble actually seeing the data, it keeps giving me a HASH message. the code is this: 
@{$sheet->{Cells}[$row]};
                
    my @indexes = (2 .. (2+4-1));
    my @dcells = @{$sheet->{Cells}[$row]}[@indexes];
    open FILE, ">>forgetyou.txt";
            
        foreach (@dcells) {
        print FILE ($_);
            }
        close FILE;

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I wanted to print the data from the cell into a text file as a kind of test to see what columns were coming up etc. and it gives me this: 
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Cell=HASH(0x70a49a8)Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::
+Cell=HASH(0x70a4a08)Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Cell=HASH(0x70a4a98)

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over and over, I know this is data from the hash but I dont know how to see the actual contents of the cell.

please help
ken

In reply to spreadsheet::xlsx and terrible stuff by trickyq

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