If it's going to be a script that will be used by many people as a utility,
it may be worth while to automate it with OLE, but if it is a one shot deal,
or if you are the only one that will be running it, you'd probably be better
off saving the spreadsheet as a tab or comma delimited text file and
Scott K Purcell wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I was just handed an "excel" file, and was told to parse it. I have never
> used any of the Ole stuff, and I don't know if I should use that, or just
> treat it as a "flat file".? I am for the most part a web guy.
Look at DBI::CSV if you want to handle this as