On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm getting tired of converting spreadsheets that someone else updates > to csv so my perl scripts can push the data into a mysql database. Is > there a better way? I haven't had much luck with > perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel (and find it odd that yum prefers the .32 > version from epel over .57 from rpmforge anyway). Is the current CPAN > version better? Or the equivalent java tools? Or maybe a scripted > OpenOffice conversion would be possible. No idea about the csv from excel, but I have had good experiences with Text::CSV_XS. -- natxo