NAME

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple - A simple interface to Excel data

SYNOPSIS

  my $xls = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple->read('spreadsheet.xls');
  foreach my $sheet ($xls->sheets) {
     while ($sheet->has_data) {  
         my @data = $sheet->next_row;
     }
  }

DESCRIPTION

This provides an abstraction to the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module for simple reading of values.

You simply loop over the sheets, and fetch rows to arrays.

For anything more complex, you probably want to use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel directly.

METHODS

read

  my $xls = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple->read('spreadsheet.xls');

This opens the spreadsheet specified for you. Returns undef if we cannot read the book.

sheets

  @sheets = $xls->sheets;

Each spreadsheet can contain one or more worksheets. This fetches them all back. You can then iterate over them, or jump straight to the one you wish to play with.

has_data

  if ($sheet->has_data) { ... }

This lets us know if there are more rows in this sheet that we haven't read yet. This allows us to differentiate between an empty row, and the end of the sheet.

next_row

  my @data = $sheet->next_row;

Fetch the next row of data back.

AUTHOR

Tony Bowden

BUGS and QUERIES

Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to: bug-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-Simple@rt.cpan.org

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Tony Bowden. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.