"Tom Servo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Ian wrote: > > The campus phone system has a 911 database that is in Microsoft Excel > > format, and they want to be able to take that information, and show > > it on a webpage, either via a search form, or in one big table. The > > problem is, they want to do it dynamically...the web server needs to > > yank it down from a samba share (or ftp), parse it, show it, and > > terminate. > > [...] > Hopefully someone else knows of a CPAN module to work with Excel files, > though...
i count at least 5: http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Excel i haven't used any of them, though. i've used Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, but it only *writes* Excel files, it doesn't read them (hence the name). it looks like Spreadsheet::ParseExcel http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Spreadsheet-ParseExcel or Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-Simple should do what you're looking for hth, -dave
