> I don't know if this is a win32:gui or a general perl > question but here it If you don't know how to read the stuff out of the listview, it's a GUI question, but I don't think you will be shot for asking about the other part ;-)
What you want is Win32::ODBC, which can be used to access Excel files. Since it is not very funny to make a data source for each xls file, have a look at www.fairymails.com/perl/, there is "dbspy" which shows how to make temporary DSNs from within perl. There's no inline documentation - sorry. But it's just a couple of lines after /\.xls$/
