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Daniel Naylor (Dora’s father)

I have recently been looking at various social lending websites. The idea is that individual lenders lend money to individual borrowers via the social lending website, rather than via the banks. The result is that the lender receive a higher rate of return while the borrower pays a lower rate of interest.

For the sake of this exercise I have opened a lending account on four of the social lending websites to see how they compare:
Funding Circle
Zopa
Ratesetter

Have just spent the last couple of days trying to process a spreadsheet file created in openoffice using perl. The problem I had was deciding which CPAN module to use. A choice of one which did everything I wanted would have been ideal. Unfortunately I had the overwhelming choice of hundreds.

I finally settled for ODF::lpOD

Thanks to the following pages that pointed me in the right direction:
how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_read_OpenOffice_OpenDocument_spreadsheets_in_Perl

search.cpan.org/dist/ODF-lpOD/lpOD/Tutorial.pod#Individual_cell_access,_read_and_update

search.cpan.org/~jmgdoc/ODF-lpOD-1.114/lpOD/Table.pod