Simple(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Simple(3)NAMESpreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple - A simple single-sheet Excel document
SYNOPSIS
my $ss = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple->new;
$ss->write_bold_row(\@headings);
$ss->write_row(\@data);
print $ss->data;
# or
$ss->save("filename.xls");
DESCRIPTION
This provides an abstraction to the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module for
easier creation of simple single-sheet Excel documents.
In its most basic form it provides two methods for writing data:
write_row and write_bold_row which write the data supplied to the next
row of the spreadsheet.
However, you can also use $ss->book and $ss->sheet to get at the
underlying workbook and worksheet from Spreadsheet::WriteExcel if you
wish to manipulate these directly.
METHODS
new
my $ss = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple->new;
Create a new single-sheet Excel document. You should not supply this a
filename or filehandle. The data is stored internally, and can be
retrieved later through the 'data' method or saved using the 'save'
method.
write_row / write_bold_row
$ss->write_bold_row(\@headings);
$ss->write_row(\@data);
These write the list of data into the next row of the spreadsheet.
Caveat: An internal counter is kept as to which row is being written
to, so if you mix these functions with direct writes of your own, these
functions will continue where they left off, not where you have written
to.
data
print $ss->data;
This returns the data of the spreadsheet. If you're planning to print
this to a web-browser, be sure to print an 'application/excel' header
first.
book / sheet
my $workbook = $ss->book;
my $worksheet = $ss->sheet;
These return the underlying Spreadsheet::WriteExcel objects
representing the workbook and worksheet respectively. If you find
yourself making more that a trivial amount of use of these, you
probably shouldn't be using this module, but using
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel directly.
save
$ss->save("filename.xls");
Save the spreadsheet with the given filename.
BUGS
This can't yet handle dates in a sensible manner.
AUTHOR
Tony Bowden
BUGS and QUERIES
Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:
bug-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-Simple@rt.cpan.org
SEE ALSO
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. John McNamara has done a great job with this
module.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Tony Bowden. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.14.1 2006-01-16 Simple(3)
