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Cultured Perl: Reading and Writing Excel Files with Perl

By Teodor Zlatanov
2004-05-01


Resources

• Read Ted's other Perl articles in the "Cultured Perl" series on developerWorks.

ActiveState produces the wonderful ActiveState Perl toolkit and the Komodo development environment.

• Visit CPAN for all the Perl modules you ever wanted.

Gnumeric offers a full GUI interface and import/export capabilities for Excel files.

Perl.com offers abundant Perl information and related resources.

perldoc.com has Perldoc information online.

• The Spreadsheet::WriteExcel modules have made it possible to extract data from Excel files on any platform. More information is also available from CPAN.

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel works in conjunction with Spreadsheet::WriteExcel . More information is also available from CPAN.

"Programming Perl Third Edition" by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant (O'Reilly & Associates, 2000) is the best guide to Perl today, up-to-date with 5.005 and 5.6.0 now.

• Learn about IBM's ExcelAccessor Bean Suite Project, which allows you to access the properties of a cell in an Excel workbook.

• Browse more Linux resources on developerWorks.

• Browse more Open source resources on developerWorks.


Tutorial Pages:
» Using the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Modules
» Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
» Windows Example: Parsing
» Linux Example: Parsing
» Conclusion
» Resources


First published by IBM DeveloperWorks


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