=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-5.6.x or newer.

Recent changes can be (re)viewed in the public GIT repository at
http://repo.or.cz/w/Spreadsheet-Read.git

=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

=head1 AUTHOR

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

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005-2009 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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