The data being returned is in Excel's UTF-16 Unicode format.
You will need to specify a Unicode formatter in the parse() method to handle the data. Something like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtJapan;
my $filename = 'file.xls';
my $parser = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new();
my $formatter = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtJapan->new();
my $workbook = $parser->parse($filename, $formatter);
if ( !defined $workbook ) {
die "Parsing error: ", $parser->error(), ".\n";
}
# Set your output encoding to something like this.
binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
for my $worksheet ( $workbook->worksheets() ) {
print "Worksheet name: ", $worksheet->get_name(), "\n\n";
my ( $row_min, $row_max ) = $worksheet->row_range();
my ( $col_min, $col_max ) = $worksheet->col_range();
for my $row ( $row_min .. $row_max ) {
for my $col ( $col_min .. $col_max ) {
my $cell = $worksheet->get_cell( $row, $col );
next unless $cell;
print " Row, Col = ($row, $col)\n";
print " Value = ", $cell->value(), "\n"
+;
print " Unformatted = ", $cell->unformatted(), "\n"
+;
print "\n";
}
}
}
__END__
Ignore the fact that the formatter is called FmtJapan, it is also a general purpose Unicode handler.
--
John.
