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Thank you for your post and info, dasgar. My sincere apologies for the misleading post, to you and to sundialsvc4.

I need help with Excel, not the XML. I am looking for a way to search for a particular string within an Excel spreadsheet (say "ce0_ipaddress") in a workbook, hopefully with results like "found ce0_ipaddress in worksheet 'Server1 IP Info' in column 0 of row 35". Is that even possible?

In answer to your questions:
OS: Windows XP
Excel: I have Office 2007 installed and ready
File format: .xls file, not .xlsx

Thanks again!!

ImJustAFriend

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Re^5: Search Entire Excel Workbook For Text
by marto (Cardinal) on Oct 17, 2012 at 14:55 UTC

    You could use the module Spreadsheet::ParseExcel to read the values of cells, you then need to do some coding to compare these values and create the output you required.

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      Thanks Marto. I am already using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel to read the cell values. My question is the "do some coding" piece of your response...

      Thanks again!!

      ImJustAFriend
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