If you are on a Windows system, the Win32::OLE module will work beautifully for this. As a matter of fact, the documentation for the Win32::OLE module uses Excel as an example.
-----Original Message----- From: Pant, Hridyesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:22 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Reading xls file Hi, I want to store column data of xls file in array. E.g. $array[0]=1st column of xls sheet. $array[1]=2st column of xls sheet. $array[2]=3st column of xls sheet. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>