I love Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple. Its incredibly easy to use, and I think the interface is much more intuitive and obvious that that of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. here's a snippet of code that I use:

    
my $xls = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple->read($excel); #$excel is a 
+filehandle.
warn "read Excel spreadsheet";
#warn Dumper $xls;
my @data;
    foreach my $sheet ($xls->sheets) {
         while ($sheet->has_data) {
              push @row, $sheet->next_row;
         } 
     }
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