=head1 NAME Spreadsheet::Read - Meta-Wrapper for reading spreadsheet data =head1 SYNOPSYS use Spreadsheet::Read; my $ref = ReadData ("file.xls"); =head1 DESCRIPTION Spreadsheet::Read offers a uniformed wrapper to Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and Spreadheet::ReadSXC to give the end-user a single point of view to various types of spreadsheets and deal with these in a transparent way. See for more thorrough documentation the pod in the module, or $ man Spreadsheet::Read after installation =head1 INSTALLATION $ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ make test $ make install If the C warns you in the xls tests, read the message and apply the generated patch. Spreadsheet::ParseExcel has a small bug in the parsing of the default format regarding UTF-8. This module requires perl-5.6.x or newer. =head1 TODO * Make tests for examples/xlscat * Field attributes (See Read.pm - TODO) * Support Parsers native module options * Check if Tk is installed before asking if ss2tk is wanted * Test diagnostics output * Make clip skip empty sheets =head1 AUTHOR H.Merijn Brand, =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2005-2007 H.Merijn Brand This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut