=head1 NAME
Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Spreadsheet::Read;
my $ref = ReadData ("file.xls");
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Spreadsheet::Read offers a uniformed wrapper to Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
and Spreadheet::ReadSXC to give the end-user a single point of view to
various types of spreadsheets and deal with these in a transparent way.
For more thorough documentation please refer to the perl documentation
in the module in pod format, or
$ man Spreadsheet::Read
after installation.
=head1 INSTALLATION
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
$ make install
If the C<make test> warns you in the xls tests, read the message and
apply the generated patch. Spreadsheet::ParseExcel has a small bug in
the parsing of the default format regarding UTF-8.
This module requires perl-5.8.1 or newer. It might still work under
perl-5.8.0 or perl-5.6.x, but only if Encode is also available. The
code might need some minor changes.
Recent changes can be (re)viewed in the public GIT repository at
https://github.com/Tux/Spreadsheet-Read
Feel free to clone your own copy:
$ git clone https://github.com/Tux/Spreadsheet-Read Spreadsheet-Read
or get it as a tgz:
$ wget --output-document=Spreadsheet-Read-git.tgz \
'https://github.com/Tux/Spreadsheet-Read/archive/master.tar.gz'
=head1 TODO
* Make tests for examples/xlscat
* Support Parsers native module options
* Check if Tk is installed before asking if ss2tk is wanted
* Test diagnostics output
* Make clip skip empty sheets
* Support Data::XLSX::Parser ?
=head1 AUTHOR
H.Merijn Brand, <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2005-2017 H.Merijn Brand
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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