At 07:12 AM 10/4/02 -0400, John Tobey wrote: >Then he has the combination of > >"MS Excel spreadsheet" >"parsed" >"Solaris server" > >which, while I have not tried to do it recently, would certainly have >been painful in the past. I imagine it is still a pretty imprecise >science, though I'll be happy to be proved wrong.
Have a look at Spreadsheet::ParseExcel (and possibly the corresponding but IMHO better Spreadsheet::WriteExcel) to work with those Excel files. I'm using WriteExcel with great results. http://search.cpan.org/author/KWITKNR/Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2602/ Drew -- Drew Taylor | Web development & consulting http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/DBI/mysql/postgres ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." -Edsger Dijkstra ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakeasy.net DSL - http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/29655 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
