What's the best way to parse Excel file in Perl?

Question

What\'s the simplest way to parse an Excel file in Perl? Converting it to a text file would also work.

Answer 1

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Spreadsheet-Read/Read.pm

Spreadsheet::Read tries to transparently read any spreadsheet and return its content in a universal manner independent of the parsing module that does the actual spreadsheet scanning.