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Re: "get_comment" cell method ?

venkatesh.nerell...@gmail.com (Venkatesh Nerella) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:41:36 UT

Hi John
I'm also facing with the same issue with parse::excel by
which i need to read the cell comments. Can you provide me any work arounds?
Thanks
VEnkat

How can I get a cell width or the column width

bluesky...@gmail.com (Shi Li-Li) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:14:45 UT

Dear,
Is there any method to get the column width? When i use SaveParser to
rewrite a sheet of an existing excel file,
the column width in other sheet become the default value, so is there any
way to keep the column width or get
the column width? Tks~

Re: [Spreadsheet::ParseExcel] Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Format - What do the values in the 'Fill' arrayref mean?

jmcnam...@cpan.org (John McNamara) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:22:35 UT

Hi,

I can guess from similar work on Spreadsheet::WriteExcel.

The first is the fill pattern. 0 is solid fill.

The second is the pattern foreground colour. 64 is the default setting
(black or white I don't remember).

The third is the pattern background colour. 65 is the default setting

Re: [Spreadsheet::ParseExcel] Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Font - Any recommendations for converting color to hex or rgb?

jmcnam...@cpan.org (John McNamara) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:15:57 UT

Hi,

Apologies, I don't have to generate an example, but there is an
undocumented function (not method) in ParseExcel called ColorIdxToRGB()
that converts the color index to an RGB code.

The 32767 value looks wrong though since the Excel xls format is limited to
53 colors. It is probably -1 as an unsigned value and thus may mean no

Re: Identify header/frozen/filter rows?

jmcnam...@cpan.org (jmcnamara) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:23:56 UT

Hi,
Unfortunately, there isn't any way to get that information for either of
those conditions.
Regards,
John

Identify header/frozen/filter rows?

w...@ti.com — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:10:08 UT

Is there any way to identify rows on a sheet that are frozen or are filter
rows, so they can be handled differently than real "data"? I could not see
any methods in the perl module, and a web/group search did not turn up
anything.

Re: How to cancel numeric-formatting?

shtank2...@gmail.com (Lvovich) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:20:21 UT

Hi, John.
Thank you very much for the help!
It helped me your analysis of the problem.
The reason was in the settings of the Windows + Excel. On my computer the
Windows default separator of integer and fractional part of the comma. In
the settings of the Excel was included support to regional standards.

Re: How to cancel numeric-formatting?

jmcnam...@cpan.org (jmcnamara) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:35:58 UT

Hi,
I had a look at the files you sent and the data that you think are strings
are actually numbers.
Here is a screenshot of what I see when I open the file.

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Perhaps you are on a system that shows the decimal point as a comma.

Re: How to cancel numeric-formatting?

shtank2...@gmail.com (Lvovich) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:17:00 UT

Hi, John.
I spent two tests:
1) Book1.xls - all the cells of the General
2) Book2.xls - all cells in the Text
A test script parse_excel.cgi:
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
my $parser = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new() ;
my $workbook = $parser->parse('Book1.xls');
open(FILE,'>Book1.txt');
if (!defined $workbook ) {

Re: Saveparser: Add Formula

jmcnam...@cpan.org (jmcnamara) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:41:06 UT

Hi,

That is unfortunately due to the fact that the underlying
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel cannot parse a formula that refers to a
worksheet that hasn't been created yet since it has to map the
worksheet name to an internal index as required by Excel.

In Spreadsheet::WriteExcel programs this isn't generally an issue

Re: How to cancel numeric-formatting?

jmcnam...@cpan.org (jmcnamara) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:09:18 UT

Hi,

This also reinforces the suspicion that the data is actually numeric.
This is the result of standard floating point rounding.

You can round it back using sprintf/printf. Something like:

$ perl -le 'printf "%.5f\n", 600.12395000004'
600.12395

Regards,

John.

Re: How to cancel numeric-formatting?

jmcnam...@cpan.org (jmcnamara) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:05:21 UT

Hi,

If you are getting numeric data out of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel then
the data in Excel in probably numeric. It doesn't coerce string data
to numeric data.

For example, consider the following program that produces an Excel
file with a string from your example:

use strict;
use warnings;

Re: How to cancel numeric-formatting?

shtank2...@gmail.com (Lvovich) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:06:07 UT

Add one more example:
the text in this cell "600,12395" the first time was transformed into
"600.12395000004", and the second time was transformed into
"600.123949999997"
How to download such cells without distortion, to keep two of code,
separated by a comma, not to convert the numeric?
Help, please!

How to cancel numeric-formatting?

shtank2...@gmail.com (Lvovich) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:08:07 UT

Hi.
I have in the table cells with a list of codes separated by commas:
"12576,16244", "600,12395", "15801,15976".
In Excel type of cells - the text.
When parsing such a cell is defined as Numeric, and are converted to:
12576,16244 > 12576.16244
600,12395 > 600.12395
and etc.
Moreover, the cell->value() and cell->unformatted() give the same value.

Re: [Spreadsheet::ParseExcel] Re: Saveparser: Add Formula

guptasonal1...@gmail.com (sonal gupta) — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:29:16 UT

Hello,

I am using the following script to write a formula using the saveparser
package

$wsw1->AddCell($j,9,'=VLOOKUP( B'.$y.',\'Module
Paths\'!$A$3:B$225,2,FALSE)',$ formatb);
$wsw1->AddCell($j,10,'=VLOOKUP (C'.$y.',\'Module Pin
Name\'!$B$2:$M$182,2,FALSE)',$ formatb);

In the first one, it writes the formula while in second one it deletes all