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Spreadsheet::WriteExcel - Write to a cross-platform Excel binary file. - search.cpan.org

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CHARTEX(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       CHARTEX(1p)

NAME
chartex - A utility to extract charts from an Excel file for insertion into a Spreadsheet::WriteExcel file. DESCRIPTION
This program is used for extracting one or more charts from an Excel file in binary format. The charts can then be included in a "Spreadsheet::WriteExcel" file. See the "add_chart_ext()" section of the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel documentation for more details. SYNOPSIS
chartex [--chartname --help --man] file.xls Options: --chartname -c The root name for the extracted charts, defaults to "chart". OPTIONS
--chartname or -c This sets the root name for the extracted charts, defaults to "chart". For example: $ chartex file.xls Extracting "Chart1" to chart01.bin $ chartex -c mychart file.xls Extracting "Chart1" to mychart01.bin --help or -h Print a brief help message and exits. --man or -m Prints the manual page and exits. AUTHOR
John McNamara jmcnamara@cpan.org VERSION
Version 0.02. COPYRIGHT
X MMV, John McNamara. All Rights Reserved. This program is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2009-11-29 CHARTEX(1p)
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