Hi, at a complete guess I would try changing your call to use the 'Name' column as the key of the hash. Untested; see what you get:

$excel_table->parse_table("Sheet1", "Name") ;
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... or, if that doesn't work, you can manipulate the hash you already have:

my $hashref = $excel_table->get_table("ID");
my %excel_hash = %{ $hashref };
my %new_hash = map { $_ => $excel_hash{ $_ }->{'Name'} } keys %excel_h
+ash;
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(map loops throuugh the keys of the hash, assigning each key to $_. In the block we dig down and get the value we want and match it to the key in the new hash we create).

Hope this helps!

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