if ( -d $dest ) { was not needed, the previous chdir would have failed if $dest was not a directory.
chomp $file is not needed, a trailing newline is an acceptable (if not appreciated) character in a directory entry
Be reluctant to use system calls in a perlscript. In this case, my $sheetname = `basename $file | cut -d. -f1`; was replaced by $file =~ s{\..*$}{}; as $file is already a "basename" and you were just trimming off everything after the first ".".
Hi,
I have a question about using C to write excel file.
There is a way to write into a sheet into a file excel, like this:
FILE * File;
pMyFile = fopen("test.xls", "w+");
fprintf(File, "\n\n"); /* go to the row 2 of the column A*/
fprintf(File, "%s", "Hi pippo!"); /* write... (7 Replies)
Hi,
There is this requirement to create multiple work sheets in an MS Excel file through UNIX.
We normally can create one work sheet in unix by either tab or comma delimiting and appending .xls or .csv to the file name, but can we create multiple work sheets.
Regards,
Puspendu (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have generated an excel sheet using a shell script. i have converted the output text file to an excel and got the desired output. However, in a particular column in the excel the values of the numbers start with 0.
e.g. 078393343, 00342442, etc.
But, in the resulting excel I get as... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to find a way to read an excel work book with multiple worksheets.
And write each worksheet into a new excel file using perl. My environment is Unix.
For example: I have an excel workbook TEST.xls and it has Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3 worksheets. I would like to create... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need your help in sedning sql queries output to different excel sheets.
My requirement is like this:
Query1: Select name from table1 where status = 'Complete'
Query2: Select name from table1 where status = 'Failed'
Query3: Select name from table1 where status = 'Ignored'
... (4 Replies)
Hi
I need to modify an excel file in perl and for which I installed perl in
Linux
1. Open a existing excel file
2. delete an unwanted Sheet called "summary"
3. and i want to insert some data into range of cells ( B1:B11)
4. Remove unwanted value called "Sum" repeated in the... (1 Reply)
Hi UNIX Gods!
Is it possible to merge two cells in .csv file using unix commands?
Imagine that this is my present csv file opened via excel:
Gate Reports| |
fatal alerts | 200 |
is is possible to make it look like this using unix?
Gate Reports |
fatal... (1 Reply)
All,
I have an excel sheet Excel1.xls that has some entries.
I have one more excel sheet Excel2.xls that has entries only in those cells which are blank in Excel1.xls
These may be in different workbooks. They are totally independent made by 2 different users.
I have placed them in a... (1 Reply)
I have requirement to write two CSV files to one single excel with multiple sheets.
Data present in the two files should sit in excel as different sheets.
How can we achieve this using shell script?
1.csv 2. csv
1,2,3,4 5,6,7,8
XXXXX YYYYY
Res.excel
1.csv data... (1 Reply)
Dear all,
I have a large dictionary database which has the following structure
source word=target word
e.g.
book=livre
Since the database is very large in spite of all the care taken, it so happens that at times the source word is repeated
e.g.
book=livre
book=tome
Since I want to... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: gimley
7 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dbd::excel
Excel(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Excel(3pm)NAME
DBD::Excel - A class for DBI drivers that act on Excel File.
This is still alpha version.
SYNOPSIS
use DBI;
$hDb = DBI->connect("DBI:Excel:file=test.xls")
or die "Cannot connect: " . $DBI::errstr;
$hSt = $hDb->prepare("CREATE TABLE a (id INTEGER, name CHAR(10))")
or die "Cannot prepare: " . $hDb->errstr();
$hSt->execute() or die "Cannot execute: " . $hSt->errstr();
$hSt->finish();
$hDb->disconnect();
DESCRIPTION
This is still alpha version.
The DBD::Excel module is a DBI driver. The module is based on these modules:
* Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
reads Excel files.
* Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
writes Excel files.
* SQL::Statement
a simple SQL engine.
* DBI
Of course. :-)
This module assumes TABLE = Worksheet. The contents of first row of each worksheet as column name.
Adding that, this module accept temporary table definition at "connect" method with "xl_vtbl".
ex.
my $hDb = DBI->connect(
"DBI:Excel:file=dbdtest.xls", undef, undef,
{xl_vtbl =>
{TESTV =>
{
sheetName => 'TEST_V',
ttlRow => 5,
startCol => 1,
colCnt => 4,
datRow => 6,
datLmt => 4,
}
}
});
For more information please refer sample/tex.pl included in this distribution.
Metadata
The following attributes are handled by DBI itself and not by DBD::Excel, thus they all work like expected:
Active
ActiveKids
CachedKids
CompatMode (Not used)
InactiveDestroy
Kids
PrintError
RaiseError
Warn (Not used)
The following DBI attributes are handled by DBD::Excel:
AutoCommit
Always on
ChopBlanks
Works
NUM_OF_FIELDS
Valid after "$hSt->execute"
NUM_OF_PARAMS
Valid after "$hSt->prepare"
NAME
Valid after "$hSt->execute"; undef for Non-Select statements.
NULLABLE
Not really working, always returns an array ref of one's. Valid after "$hSt->execute"; undef for Non-Select statements.
These attributes and methods are not supported:
bind_param_inout
CursorName
LongReadLen
LongTruncOk
Additional to the DBI attributes, you can use the following dbh attribute:
xl_fmt
This attribute is used for setting the formatter class for parsing.
xl_dir
This attribute is used only with "data_sources" on setting the directory where Excel files ('*.xls') are searched. It defaults to the
current directory (".").
xl_vtbl
assumes specified area as a table. See sample/tex.pl.
xl_skiphidden
skip hidden rows(=row height is 0) and hidden columns(=column width is 0). See sample/thidden.pl.
xl_ignorecase
set casesensitive or not about table name and columns. Default is sensitive (maybe as SQL::Statement). See sample/thidden.pl.
Driver private methods
data_sources
The "data_sources" method returns a list of '*.xls' files of the current directory in the form "DBI:Excel:xl_dir=$dirname".
If you want to read the subdirectories of another directory, use
my($hDr) = DBI->install_driver("Excel");
my(@list) = $hDr->data_sources(
{ xl_dir => '/usr/local/xl_data' } );
list_tables
This method returns a list of sheet names contained in the $hDb->{file}. Example:
my $hDb = DBI->connect("DBI:Excel:file=test.xls");
my @list = $hDb->func('list_tables');
TODO
More tests
First of all...
Type and Format
The current version not support date/time and text formating.
Joins
The current version of the module works with single table SELECT's only, although the basic design of the SQL::Statement module allows
joins and the likes.
KNOWN BUGS
o There are too many TODO things. So I can't determind what is BUG. :-)
AUTHOR
Kawai Takanori (Hippo2000) kwitknr@cpan.org
Homepage:
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/hippo2000/ (Japanese)
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/hippo2000/index_e.htm (English)
Wiki:
http://www.hippo2000.net/cgi-bin/KbWiki/KbWiki.pl (Japanese)
http://www.hippo2000.net/cgi-bin/KbWikiE/KbWiki.pl (English)
SEE ALSO
DBI, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, SQL::Statement
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001 KAWAI,Takanori All rights reserved.
You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.
perl v5.8.8 2008-03-01 Excel(3pm)