How in Laravel to provide a downloadable file (store) to the FastExcel library?

Question

Laravel

The following task appeared - to load xlsx-files into laravel and get data from them.
To open xlsx files I use the FastExcel library . It has a method - import, which needs to specify the path to the file.
I made a file download page and using the store method, I save it to the storage. The file is eventually saved to this directory - LARAVEL\storage\app.
By default, when accessing files in laravel, the LARAVEL\public\ directory is accessed.
As a result, to specify the path to the file, I specify the path like this: ..\storage\app\file.xlsx.
It seems to me that this is not correct, tell me how to do it better?
LARAVEL also has the Storage::get('file.xlsx') method, but as I understand it, it returns binary data, and the import method of the FastExcel library needs exactly the path to the file.

Answer 1

Try the method Storage::path()- it returns the absolute path to the file
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