NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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.

For more thorough documentation please refer to the perl documentation in the module in pod format, 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.

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

Feel free to clone your own copy:

$ git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/Spreadsheet-Read.git Spreadsheet-Read

or get it as a tgz:

 $ wget --output-document=Spreadsheet-Read-git.tgz \
	   'http://repo.or.cz/w/Spreadsheet-Read.git?a=snapshot;sf=tgz'

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

AUTHOR

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

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005-2010 H.Merijn Brand

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