Cultured Perl: Reading and Writing Excel Files with Perl
By Teodor Zlatanov2004-05-01
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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