LPM: Reading from Excel with Perl

[ken.rietz at asbury.edu]

Hi --

I was wondering if any of you have had experience trying to read
data from an Excel spreadsheet using Perl on a Win machine.
My initial thought is to use the ODBC interface. Is there any
better way? Is it going to be more frustration than it's worth?
I can currently export the data as tab-delimited ASCII, and pull
it apart with split, and it works fine. I was hoping to eliminate
the export step, though.

TIA

-- Ken Rietz