NAME

Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data

SYNOPSYS

use Spreadsheet::Read;
my $ref = ReadData ("file.xls");

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.

See for more thorrough documentation the pod in the module, or

$ man Spreadsheet::Read

after installation

INSTALLATION

$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
$ make install

If the 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.

TODO

* Make tests for examples/xlscat
* Field attributes (See Read.pm - TODO)
* Support Parsers native module options
* Check if Tk is installed before asking if ss2tk is wanted
* Test diagnostics output

AUTHOR

H.Merijn Brand, <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005-2006 H.Merijn Brand

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