08-24-2010
Using Spreadsheet on Perl in UNIX
Very new to UNIX, so still getting used to all this.
I made a Perl script where I want to create a spreadsheet file when extracting "data" from a text file.
Now, this works perfectly fine on my Windows OS since I'm using the Win32 libraries with Microsoft Excel, but when I want to try it out on UNIX, it fails (obviously).
The question is, if I had the libraries and Microsoft Excel installed on my UNIX machine, would the Perl script be able to work?
I guess a follow-up question is, if I have a Windows server that doesn't have Microsoft Excel, would the Perl script still be able to make the Excel file?
I'm assuming it wouldn't, but who knows?
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spreadsheet::xlsx
Spreadsheet::XLSX(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Spreadsheet::XLSX(3pm)
NAME
Spreadsheet::XLSX - Perl extension for reading MS Excel 2007 files;
SYNOPSIS
use Text::Iconv;
my $converter = Text::Iconv -> new ("utf-8", "windows-1251");
# Text::Iconv is not really required.
# This can be any object with the convert method. Or nothing.
use Spreadsheet::XLSX;
my $excel = Spreadsheet::XLSX -> new ('test.xlsx', $converter);
foreach my $sheet (@{$excel -> {Worksheet}}) {
printf("Sheet: %s
", $sheet->{Name});
$sheet -> {MaxRow} ||= $sheet -> {MinRow};
foreach my $row ($sheet -> {MinRow} .. $sheet -> {MaxRow}) {
$sheet -> {MaxCol} ||= $sheet -> {MinCol};
foreach my $col ($sheet -> {MinCol} .. $sheet -> {MaxCol}) {
my $cell = $sheet -> {Cells} [$row] [$col];
if ($cell) {
printf("( %s , %s ) => %s
", $row, $col, $cell -> {Val});
}
}
}
}
DESCRIPTION
This module is a (quick and dirty) emulation of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel for Excel 2007 (.xlsx) file format. It supports styles and many of
Excel's quirks, but not all. It populates the classes from Spreadsheet::ParseExcel for interoperability; including Workbook, Worksheet,
and Cell.
SEE ALSO
Text::CSV_XS, Text::CSV_PP
http://search.cpan.org/~hmbrand/
A pure perl version is available on http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
http://search.cpan.org/~kwitknr/
Spreadsheet::ReadSXC
http://search.cpan.org/~terhechte/
Spreadsheet::BasicRead
http://search.cpan.org/~gng/ for xlscat likewise functionality (Excel only)
Spreadsheet::ConvertAA
http://search.cpan.org/~nkh/ for an alternative set of cell2cr () / cr2cell () pair
Spreadsheet::Perl
http://search.cpan.org/~nkh/ offers a Pure Perl implementation of a spreadsheet engine. Users that want this format to be supported in
Spreadsheet::Read are hereby motivated to offer patches. It's not high on my todo-list.
xls2csv
http://search.cpan.org/~ken/ offers an alternative for my "xlscat -c", in the xls2csv tool, but this tool focusses on character encoding
transparency, and requires some other modules.
Spreadsheet::Read
http://search.cpan.org/~hmbrand/ read the data from a spreadsheet (interface module)
AUTHOR
Dmitry Ovsyanko, <do@eludia.ru<gt>, http://eludia.ru/wiki/
Patches by:
Steve Simms
Joerg Meltzer
Loreyna Yeung
Rob Polocz
Gregor Herrmann
H.Merijn Brand
endacoe
Pat Mariani
Sergey Pushkin
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to TrackVia Inc. (http://www.trackvia.com) for paying for Rob Polocz working time.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2008 by Dmitry Ovsyanko
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.10.1 2010-05-16 Spreadsheet::XLSX(3pm)