NAME

Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data

SYNOPSIS

use Spreadsheet::Read;
my $ref = ReadData ("file.xls");

DESCRIPTION

Spreadsheet::Read offers a uniformed wrapper to Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and Spreadheet::ReadSXC to give the end-user a single point of view to various types of spreadsheets and deal with these in a transparent way.

For more thorough documentation please refer to the perl documentation in the module in pod format, or

$ man Spreadsheet::Read

after installation.

INSTALLATION

$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
$ make install

If the make test warns you in the xls tests, read the message and apply the generated patch. Spreadsheet::ParseExcel has a small bug in the parsing of the default format regarding UTF-8.

This module requires perl-5.8.1 or newer. It might still work under perl-5.8.0 or perl-5.6.x, but only if Encode is also available. The code might need some minor changes.

Recent changes can be (re)viewed in the public GIT repository at https://github.com/Tux/Spreadsheet-Read

Feel free to clone your own copy:

$ git clone https://github.com/Tux/Spreadsheet-Read Spreadsheet-Read

or get it as a tgz:

 $ wget --output-document=Spreadsheet-Read-git.tgz \
	   'https://github.com/Tux/Spreadsheet-Read/archive/master.tar.gz'

TOOLS

Installing this module will optionally (default is yes) also install some useful tools that use Spreadsheet::Read. At least two are know to cause a possible name clash:

* xls2csv also exists as https://metacpan.org/release/KEN/xls2csv-1.06
  Mine existed before that script, and this version dates from 2005
* ssdiff also exists in the gnumeric package with similar functionality

TODO

* Make tests for scripts/xlscat
* Support Parsers native module options
* Check if Tk is installed before asking if ss2tk is wanted
* Test diagnostics output
* Support Spreadsheet::Perl
* Support Data::XLSX::Parser
* Steal options from other CSV/Spreadsheet tools to implement in
  xlscat and xlsgrep

AUTHOR

H.Merijn Brand <perl5@tux.freedom.nl>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005-2024 H.Merijn Brand

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.