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chartex

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)