[Bioperl-l] Excel access

simon andrews (BI) simon.andrews@bbsrc.ac.uk
Fri, 1 Nov 2002 08:20:09 -0000


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naran Hirani [mailto:N.Hirani@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk]
> Sent: 31 October 2002 21:33
> To: bioperl-l@bioperl.org
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] Excel access
> 
> 
> > Naran Hirani wrote:
> >
> >  Is there in bioperl that might help me extract data from 
> >  an excel file?
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Could you, or any one else on the 
> list, perhaps recommend a good perl module that might be 
> worth using?

I've used Spreadsheet::ParseExcel to pull out large sets of information from multi-sheet workbooks, and it worked fine.  Just make sure you read the examples in the documentation carefully, as its object interface doesn't always work the way you'd expect.

Simon.