What about open office spread sheets. Can they be read by these excel CPAN entries?
--- On Mon, 1/25/10, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA <[email protected]> wrote: From: ANJAN PURKAYASTHA <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Working with Excel spreadsheets To: "Mike Blezien" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], "Perl List" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, January 25, 2010, 8:59 PM Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple is the simplest module to use. Very user friendly. I use it often. HTH, Anjan On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Mike Blezien <[email protected]>wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen" <[email protected]> > To: "Mike Blezien" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Perl List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:14 PM > Subject: Re: Working with Excel spreadsheets > > > > >> Hello, >>> >>> we need to extract data from uploaded Excel spreadsheets, XLS binary >>> files. What >>> is the best perl module to accomplish this with ?? >>> >> >> >> >> Updated yesterday, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel >> >> >> Put 'excel' into the box at http://search.cpan.org/ and you may find >> others, like Spreadsheet::DataFromExcel >> > > Thanks Owen. I was reading through that module but wanted to find something > bit simpler to use, like the DataFromExcel or Excel2Text then work with the > exported data. Think we'll do some testing and see which one will suite our > need. > > Thanks for the help > > Mike > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- ============================= anjan purkayastha, phd * research associate * fas center for systems biology, * harvard university * =============================
