NAME Spreadsheet::ParseExcel - Extract information from Excel file. DESCRIPTION This module allows you to extract information from Excel file. This module can handle files in Excel95, 97 and 2000 format. The module will work on the majority of Windows, UNIX and Macintosh platforms. REQUIREMENT This module requires these modules: OLE::Storage_Lite Jcode.pm (if you are using FmtJapan, or FmtJapan2) Unicode::Map (if you are using FmtJapan2 or FmtUnicode) IO::Scalar (if PERLIO is not available) Spreadsheet::WriteExcel (to use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::SaveParser) INSTALLATION The module can be installed using the standard Perl procedure: perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Bbuild install or perl Makefile.PL make make test make install # You may need to be root make clean # or make realclean or using CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS.pm cpan Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Windows users without a working "make" can get nmake from: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe For FmtJapan2 If you use FmtJapan2, you must do following actions: (1) Copy "CP932Excel.map" included with this distribution to an applicatable directry. (2) To add "CP932Excel" as map name, append following lines to REGISTRY in the Unicode::Map hierarchy (changing map directy to applicatable directry): name: CP932Excel srcURL: $SrcUnicode/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP932.TXT src: $DestUnicode/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP932.TXT map: (which you copied directry)/CP932Excel.map # Don't remove this line AUTHOR Current maintainer 0.40+: John McNamara jmcnamara@cpan.org Maintainer 0.27-0.33: Gabor Szabo szabgab@cpan.org Original author: Kawai Takanori (Hippo2000) kwitknr@cpan.org SUPPORT Before you report problems, please check the "KNOWN PROBLEMS" section in the manual page for Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. There is a Google group for discussing and asking questions about Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/spreadsheet-parseexcel/ Bugs can be reported via rt.cpan.org. See the following for instructions: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Spreadsheet-ParseExcel Test cases are always welcome.