I use the below code to read spread sheets. I am being inputed a line number that the header starts on. but I found that many of the input spreadsheets have a few to many blank rows lines starting at the top. there will be free form cells filled in but these are above the real header. So when I try to count the number rows down from top the count is off by the top blank rows and I donot know how to count them. example a spread sheet starts with 5 total blank rows and I am given 20 as the line # the real header start on... the real count i find to be 15 because the top 5 don't get seen in code below. Is there a answer to true row counting thanks David -------------------- 
use Spreadsheet::BasicRead;
 my $ss = new Spreadsheet::BasicRead($xlsFileName) || die "Could not o
+pen
'$xlsFileName': $!";

 while (my $data = $ss->getNextRow()) {
    $row++;
    $d = "$row    ";
    print join('|', $d, @$data), "\n";
 }

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