Spreadsheet/BasicRead version 1.12
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Provides methods for simple reading of a Excel spreadsheet row
at a time returning the row as an array of column values.
Properties can be set so that blank rows are skipped.

There are a number of other properties that can be set.
The aim is to make reading from Excel spreadsheets as
easy as processing a text file

As of v1.12 handles .xlxs, .xlsm files as well as .xls


INSTALLATION
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To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install


DEPENDENCIES
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This module requires Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and optionally
module File::Log can be used to allow simple logging of errors.

Both are available from CPAN


OTHER APPLICATIONS
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Two sample applications are provided, they are:

dumpSS.pl -   Which will dump each row of every sheet to stdout.
              Each row is printed on a single line with a pipe character
              separating each cell value (no special handling of cells that
              contain a pipe character is provided).  Each sheet name is
              printed on a line by itself surrounded by '***'

xlsgrep.pl - Provides a perl regular expression grep function for spreadsheet
             files.  This application will recurse from the current directory
             looking for .xls files to check.  If the contents of a cell matches
             the regular expression provided then the name of the file, the sheet
             name, the row and column numbers (zero indexed) and the cell value
             are printed.


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
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Copyright (c) 1999- Greg George. All rights reserved. This
program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.