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

Maintainer 0.60+: Douglas Wilson [email protected]

Maintainer 0.40-0.59: John McNamara [email protected]

Maintainer 0.27-0.33: Gabor Szabo [email protected]

Original author: Kawai Takanori (Hippo2000) [email protected]

SUPPORT Please check the "KNOWN PROBLEMS" section in the manual page for Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.