Ian, I have never used it, but I have heard that Spreadsheet::ParseExcel is good at getting Excel file into a Perl script. If you every need to go the other way (Perl->Excel) i have used (and highly recommend) Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. Both of these can be found on CPAN.
Ian wrote: > The campus phone system has a 911 database that is in Microsoft Excel > format, and they want to be able to take that information, and show > it on a webpage, either via a search form, or in one big table. The > problem is, they want to do it dynamically...the web server needs to > yank it down from a samba share (or ftp), parse it, show it, and > terminate. > John Whitnack
