Re^3: Search Entire Excel Workbook For Text

You're mostly correct. Most of your post was talking about XML, which I think could confuse folks about what you're needing help with: XML or Excel.

What OS are you on? If you're on Windows, do you have Excel installed and available for use? Which Excel version is the file that you're using?

As for Excel file type, there's the older .xls version and the newer .xlsx type. Very different structures.
From non-Windows OSes and Windows without Excel, you'll probably be interested in Spreadsheet::ParseExcel for the older .xls file type and Spreadsheet::XLSX for the newer .xls.
From a Windows system with Excel, I personally would use Win32::OLE to control Excel to access the Excel file.
Also, with the .xlsx file type, there's another route to go. I believe that's just a compressed XML file. That means that you can uncompress it and then do XML parsing. If you go that route, then sundialsvc4's response about using XPath type modules for XML parsing now becomes very applicable.

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Re^4: Search Entire Excel Workbook For Text by ImJustAFriend (Scribe) on Oct 17, 2012 at 14:48 UTC
Thank you for your post and info, dasgar. My sincere apologies for the misleading post, to you and to sundialsvc4. I need help with Excel, not the XML. I am looking for a way to search for a particular string within an Excel spreadsheet (say "ce0_ipaddress") in a workbook, hopefully with results like "found ce0_ipaddress in worksheet 'Server1 IP Info' in column 0 of row 35". Is that even possible? In answer to your questions: OS: Windows XP Excel: I have Office 2007 installed and ready File format: .xls file, not .xlsx Thanks again!! ImJustAFriend	[reply]
Re^5: Search Entire Excel Workbook For Text by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 17, 2012 at 14:55 UTC
You could use the module Spreadsheet::ParseExcel to read the values of cells, you then need to do some coding to compare these values and create the output you required.	[reply]
Re^6: Search Entire Excel Workbook For Text by ImJustAFriend (Scribe) on Oct 17, 2012 at 19:44 UTC
Thanks Marto. I am already using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel to read the cell values. My question is the "do some coding" piece of your response... Thanks again!! ImJustAFriend	[reply]