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Top Forums Programming To Perl or not to Perl, that is the question... ;o) Post 303037691 by Corona688 on Friday 9th of August 2019 11:25:39 AM
Old 08-09-2019
"Dying" is hyperbole. By that metric I'm sure awk has been dead for half a century. It still persists where its feature set is useful, as does Perl.

One thing that makes Perl especially useful is its excellent - and several - libraries for dealing with Excel files. If your question ends with "...with Excel files in Unix", 9/10 times the solution will involve Perl somewhere.

But the main thing I see Perl used for these days is DNA. Makes sense to throw the most featureful string language there is at the longest string there is...

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Excel::Template::Element::Cell(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Excel::Template::Element::Cell(3pm)

NAME
Excel::Template::Element::Cell - Excel::Template::Element::Cell PURPOSE
To actually write stuff to the worksheet NODE NAME
CELL INHERITANCE
ELEMENT ATTRIBUTES
o TEXT This is the text to write to the cell. This can either be text or a parameter with a dollar-sign in front of the parameter name. o COL Optionally, you can specify which column you want this cell to be in. It can be either a number (zero-based) or an offset. See Excel::Template for more info on offset-based numbering. o REF Adds the current cell to the a list of cells that can be backreferenced. This is useful when the current cell needs to be referenced by a formula. See BACKREF and RANGE. o WIDTH Sets the width of the column the cell is in. The last setting for a given column will win out. o TYPE This allows you to specify what write_*() method will be used. The default is to call write() and let Spreadsheet::WriteExcel make the right call. However, you may wish to override it. Excel::Template will not do any form of validation on what you provide. You are assumed to know what you're doing. The legal types (taken from Spreadsheet::WriteExcel) are: o COMMENT Add a comment to the cell o blank o formula o number o string o url o date_time other write_* methods as defined defined Spreadsheet::WriteExcel would be integrated by request CHILDREN
FORMULA EFFECTS
This will consume one column in the current row. DEPENDENCIES
None USAGE
<cell text="Some Text Here"/> <cell>Some other text here</cell> <cell text="$Param2"/> <cell>Some <var name="Param"> text here</cell> In the above example, four cells are written out. The first two have text hard-coded. The second two have variables. The third and fourth items have another thing that should be noted. If you have text where you want a variable in the middle, you have to use the latter form. Variables within parameters are the entire parameter's value. Please see Spreadsheet::WriteExcel for what constitutes a legal formula. AUTHOR
Rob Kinyon (rob.kinyon@gmail.com) SEE ALSO
ROW, VAR, FORMULA perl v5.14.2 2012-04-29 Excel::Template::Element::Cell(3pm)
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