Hi Monkers;

I did not get much luck from stackoverflow so i decide to raise up here. Please move to the original link :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15598273/parsing-an-xls-file-using-perl

i think amon provides a doable code except that the data does not have the repeated pattern he assumed as every fourth row (maybe he missed what i replied). Basically, not just the 3 fields that i would like to extract, it has more fields. Also it does not have a repeated pattern like the same block appears every 5 rows or so. It is irregular in a sense that each item (in this case, school) has unequal sub-items.

e.g. 

          col1      col2
    row1  School    1
    row2  Dean      John
    row3  No.stu.   55
    row4  some irrelevant stuff 
    row5  School2   2
    row6  Dean      Tony 
    row7  No. stu.  60 
    row8  some irrelevant stuff
    row9  School    3
    row10 Dean      James
    row11 No.stu.   56
    row12 No. teacher 20

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Now the idea is that, although the data does not have a regular pattern, for each block, the last row would be the same item, say, average SAT score. I was wondering if it is possible to have a content-triggered code which parse back all stuff it goes through until reaches some specific content.

Best regards,

In reply to content triggered parsing in Spreadsheet-ParseExcel by qingxia

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