Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, Could anybody tell me how to read a SLK (Symbolic Link Ex: one.slk) file in Perl. -Thanks in Advance

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Re: Reading SLK files in Perl
by displeaser (Hermit) on Aug 17, 2005 at 12:41 UTC
Re: Reading SLK files in Perl
by newroz (Monk) on Aug 17, 2005 at 12:10 UTC
      I don't think that's what the OP is asking for. SLK is not a symbolic link, it is called the symbolic link exchange format. It is an alternative to store Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

      I don't think there is a free library currently available to handle that file format yet. The best bet is to use Win32::API and reverse engineer the dynamic link libraries supplied by Excel.

        I hadn't heard that format before. Thanks for that.So my previous comment useless in that case.