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 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.