Resources

• Read Ted's other Perl articles in the "Cultured Perl" series.
  
  
• ActiveState produces the wonderful ActiveState Perl toolkit and the Komodo development environment.
  
  
• Visit CPAN for all the Perl modules you ever wanted.
  
  
• Gnumeric offers a full GUI interface and import/export capabilities for Excel files.
  
  
• Perl.com offers abundant Perl information and related resources.
  
  
• perldoc.com has Perldoc information online.
  
  
• The Spreadsheet::WriteExcel modules have made it possible to extract data from Excel files on any platform. More information is also available from CPAN.
  
  
• Spreadsheet::ParseExcel works in conjunction with Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. More information is also available from CPAN.
  
  
• "Programming Perl Third Edition" by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant (O'Reilly & Associates, 2000) is the best guide to Perl today, up-to-date with 5.005 and 5.6.0 now.
  
  
• Learn about IBM's ExcelAccessor Bean Suite Project, which allows you to access the properties of a cell in an Excel workbook.