SPUG: Getting / Putting data to a MS Excell Spreadsheet

[Dan Ebert]

I use the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel CPAN module to create Excel sheets. 
Its perldoc recommends Spreadsheet::ParseExcel for reading them, but I
haven't used it myself.

Dan.

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 12:50, North, Walter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	I know I've seen this somewhere, perhaps some kind soul
> 	can point me in the right direction.
> 
> I would like to create/update and get data from a spreadsheet, 
> in particular MS Excel.  The data resides in a mysql database
> and in particular I would like to create a spreadsheet from
> it.  And allow users, in particular management, to update the
> database via the spreadsheet as I don't really have time to 
> set up a spreadsheet looking web interface at this time.
> 
> I really don't want to have to learn VBS or whatever and would
> prefer to use perl or php.  I can do the db stuff but getting the
> data in and out of the spreadsheet via script has left me scratching 
> my head.
> 
> thanks much in advance
> 
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