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in reply to Re^2: A simple read of XLSX into Perl
in thread A simple read of XLSX into Perl

Also note that it is (very) likely that the XLSX format will get a new parser from the author of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.

Any interested parties can try out (and contribute to) the code for the new XLSX parsing library which is still in a sort of alpha state, but does 'work'.