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Top Forums Programming Perl script to merge cells in column1 which has same strings, for all sheets in a excel workbook Post 302952603 by Jack_Bruce on Thursday 20th of August 2015 09:54:00 AM
Old 08-20-2015
Below is the complete code which works great converting all csv files(sorted based on column1) in dest directory to a single xls with multiple tabs.

Code:
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
my $dest = '/home/dest';
my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("test.csv");
chdir $dest or die "no such directory: $!";
if ( -d $dest ) {
    opendir my $dh, $dest or die "can't open directory: $!";
	my @files = sort { $a cmp $b } readdir($dh);
	while ( my $file = shift @files ) {
        chomp $file;
        next if $file eq '.' or $file eq '..';
        my $sheetname = `basename $file | cut -d. -f1`;
        my $wrksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet($sheetname);
        open(my $in, '<', $file) or die "Could not open file: $!";
        my $rowCount = 0;
		my $colCount = 0;
		$colCount = 0;
        while(<$in>)
        {
			my @elements = split(',',$_);
			foreach my $el(@elements)
            {
				$wrksheet->write($rowCount,$colCount,$el);
				$colCount++;
            }
            $colCount = 0;
            $rowCount++;
        }
    }
}

---------- Post updated at 07:24 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:23 PM ----------

The xls file(with multiple rows on each sheet) which i am generating with above code will look like below:

Code:
abs-pq        tfr23 	 12345
abs-pq	tfr24	         12843
abs-pq       tfr24           12435
abs-pqrst	rts09           19923|23141
abs-pqrst	rts10	         23456
tbs-pqrst	tfr25	          21938|22143
tbs-pqrst	zzz0z	          2414|5213|4306

column1 duplicates needs to be removed and merged as one cell.
column2 duplicates needs to be removed based on merged column1 only.( first three lines of below )
column3 should be unchanged.

need output like below(ignore ___ just filled gaps to show difference) :
Code:
abs-pq  tfr23 12345
______tfr24 12843
___________12435
abs-pqrst  rts09 19923|23141
_________rts10	23456
tbs-pqrst	tfr25	21938|22143
_________zzz0z	2414|5213|4306

any help in extending my original code to meet the requirement is greatly appreciated.
Last edited by Corona688; 08-20-2015 at 12:13 PM..
 

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flow-merge

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NAME

       flow-merge -- Merge flow files.

SYNOPSIS

       flow-merge [-aghm]  [-b big|little]  [-C comment]  [-d debug_level]  [-o filename]  [-z z_level]  [file|directory ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  flow-merge	utility processes files and/or directories of files in the flow-tools format.  The resulting merged data set is written to
       the standard output or file specified by -o.  If file is a single dash (`-') or absent, flow-merge  will  read  from  the  standard  input.
       Unlike flow-cat, flow-merge interleaves flow records preserving the relative chronological order.

OPTIONS

       -a	 Do not ignore filenames that begin with tmp.

       -b big|little
		 Byte order of output.

       -C Comment
		 Add a comment.

       -d debug_level
		 Enable debugging.

       -g	 Sort file list by capture start time before processing.

       -h	 Display help.

       -m	 Disable the use of mmap().

       -p	 Preload headers.  Use to preserve meta information such as lost flows.

       -o file	 Write to file instead of the standard out.

       -z z_level
		 Configure compression level to  z_level.  0 is disabled (no compression), 9 is highest compression.

       file|directory...
		 Process the files and/or directory.

EXAMPLES

       Merge all flow files begining with ft-v05.2001-05.01, use flow-print to display the results.

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BUGS

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AUTHOR

       Larry Lidz ellidz@eridu.uchicago.edu

SEE ALSO

       flow-tools(1)

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