Re: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and PAR on Windows

On 12 Dec 2004 at 0:08, Murphy wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When I try to recompile the perl script with "pp" from PAR, and the
> script uses the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, then I'm getting such error
> message, when I try to run the executable with some excel workbook:
> 
> D:\Work\Programming\Reports>parse_excel.exe example.xls
> Missing right curly or square bracket at Spreadsheet/ParseExcel.pm
> line 2640, at end of line
> syntax error at Spreadsheet/ParseExcel.pm line 2640, at EOF
> Compilation failed in require at script/parse_excel.pl line 4.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at script/parse_excel.pl line 4.
> 

ParseExcel.pm has some non-standard POD in it and PAR 0.85 has a bug in 
removing POD 
for size reduction. Try the newly released PAR 0.86.

Alan