[CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

> Yeah, the inconvenient parts could probably be done in vbscript or
> something on a windows box, pushing the results into the db through
> odbc, but I thought this would be a common enough problem that
> cross-platform tools would be available.  I am using some java stuff on
> the reporting side - maybe I should look there for conversion tools too.

Yep, there a few java excel libraries like:

http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/ - we are using this one for dumping
into excel spreadsheets ...

or

http://poi.apache.org/