NAME

Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel - Create Excel files with Perl

SYNOPSIS

use Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel;

binmode(\*STDOUT);
# data for spreadsheet
my @header = qw(Header1 Header2);
my @data   = (['Row1Col1', 'Row1Col2'],
              ['Row2Col1', 'Row2Col2']);

# create a new instance
my $excel = Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel->new();

# add worksheets
$excel->add_worksheet('Name of Worksheet',{-headers => \@header, -data => \@data});
$excel->add_worksheet('Second Worksheet',{-data => \@data});
$excel->add_worksheet('Test');

# add a row into the middle
$excel->add_row_at('Name of Worksheet',1,[qw/new row/]);

# sort data of worksheet - ASC or DESC
$excel->sort_data('Name of Worksheet',0,'DESC');

# remove a worksheet
$excel->del_worksheet('Test');

# sort worksheets
$excel->sort_worksheets('DESC');

# create the spreadsheet
$excel->output();

# print sheet-names
print join(", ",$excel->sheets()),"\n";

# get the result as a string
my $spreadsheet = $excel->output_as_string();

# print result into a file and handle error
$excel->output_to_file("my_excel.xls") or die $excel->errstr();
$excel->output_to_file("my_excel2.xls",45000) or die $excel->errstr();

## or

# data
my @data2  = (['Row1Col1', 'Row1Col2'],
              ['Row2Col1', 'Row2Col2']);

my $worksheet = ['NAME',{-data => \@data2}];
# create a new instance
my $excel2    = Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel->new(-worksheets => [$worksheet]);

# add headers to 'NAME'
$excel2->set_headers('NAME',[qw/this is a test/]);
# append data to 'NAME'
$excel2->add_row('NAME',[qw/new row/]);

$excel2->output();

$excel2->output_to_XML('test.xml');

DESCRIPTION

Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel simplifies the creation of excel-files in the web. It does provide simple cell-formats, but only three types of formats (to keep the module simple).

METHODS

Added in version 1.4:

If you want a method to do the functionality for the last inserted worksheet (current sheet), you don't have to pass the title as a parameter for the method.

So now you can do something like this:

$excel->add_worksheet("Test");
$excel->add_row(\@data);
$excel->sort_date($column_idx);

This leads to more usability.

new

# create a new instance
my $excel = Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel->new();

# or

my $worksheet = ['NAME',{-data => ['This','is','an','Test']}];
my $excel2    = Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel->new(-worksheets => [$worksheet]);

# to create a file
my $filename = 'test.xls';
my $excel = Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel->new(-filename => $filename);

#if a file > 7 MB should be created
$excel = Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel->new(-big => 1);

If -big is set to true, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Big is required!

add_worksheet

# add worksheets
$excel->add_worksheet('Name of Worksheet',{-headers => \@header, -data => \@data});
$excel->add_worksheet('Second Worksheet',{-data => \@data});
$excel->add_worksheet('Test');

The first parameter of this method is the name of the worksheet and the second one is a hash with (optional) information about the headlines and the data. No duplicate worksheets allowed.

del_worksheet

# remove a worksheet
$excel->del_worksheet('Test');

Deletes all worksheets named like the first parameter

add_row

# append data to 'NAME'
$excel->add_row('NAME',[qw/new row/]);

Adds a new row to the worksheet named 'NAME'

add_row_at

# add a row into the middle
$excel->add_row_at('Name of Worksheet',1,[qw/new row/]);

This method inserts a row into the existing data

sort_data

# sort data of worksheet - ASC or DESC
$excel->sort_data('Name of Worksheet',0,'DESC');

sort_data sorts the rows. All sorts for one worksheet are combined, so

$excel->sort_data('Name of Worksheet',0,'DESC');
$excel->sort_data('Name of Worksheet',1,'ASC');

will sort the column 0 first and then (within this sorted data) the column 1.

reset_sort

$excel->reset_sort('Name of Worksheet');

The data won't be sorted, the data are in original order instead.

set_headers

# add headers to 'NAME'
$excel->set_headers('NAME',[qw/this is a test/]);

set the headers for the worksheet named 'NAME'

errstr

returns error message.

sort_worksheets

# sort worksheets
$excel->sort_worksheets('DESC');

sorts the worksheets in DESCending or ASCending order.

output

$excel2->output();

prints the worksheet to the STDOUT and prints the Mime-type 'application/vnd.ms-excel'.

output_as_string

# get the result as a string
my $spreadsheet = $excel->output_as_string();

returns a string that contains the data in excel-format

output_to_file

# print result into a file [output_to_file(<filename>,<lines>)]
$excel->output_to_file("my_excel.xls");
$excel->output_to_file("my_excel2.xls",45000) or die $excel->errstr();

prints the data into a file. The data will be printed into more worksheets, if the number of rows is greater than <lines> (default 32000).

output_to_XML

$excel2->output_to_XML('test.xml');

prints the data into a XML file.

sheets

$ref = $excel->sheets();
@names = $excel->sheets();

In listcontext this subroutines returns a list of the names of sheets that are in $excel, in scalar context it returns a reference on an Array.

set_headers_format

# set formats for headers of 'NAME'
# first col 'string', second col 'number', third col default format, fourth col 'number'
$excel2->set_headers_format('NAME',['s','n',undef,'n']);

sets the headers formats for a specified worksheet. If formats are commited, the default format is set. Default format is set by Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

set_data_format

# set formats for headers of 'NAME'
# first col 'string', second col 'number', third col default format, fourth col 'number'
$excel2->set_data_format('NAME',['s','n',undef,'n']);

sets the data formats for a specified worksheet. If formats are commited, the default format is set. Default format is set by Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

current_sheet

$excel->add_worksheet('Testtitle');
print $excel->current_sheet;

returns the title of the current worksheet.

EXAMPLES

PRINT ON STDOUT

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel;

binmode(\*STDOUT);
# data for spreadsheet
my @header = qw(Header1 Header2);
my @data   = (['Row1Col1', 'Row1Col2'],
              ['Row2Col1', 'Row2Col2']);

# create a new instance
my $excel = Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel->new();

# add worksheets
$excel->add_worksheet('Name of Worksheet',{-headers => \@header, -data => \@data});
$excel->add_worksheet('Second Worksheet',{-data => \@data});
$excel->add_worksheet('Test');

# add a row into the middle
$excel->add_row_at('Name of Worksheet',1,[qw/new row/]);

# sort data of worksheet - ASC or DESC
$excel->sort_data('Name of Worksheet',0,'DESC');

# remove a worksheet
$excel->del_worksheet('Test');

# create the spreadsheet
$excel->output();

RECEIVE DATA AS A SCALAR

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel;

# data
my @data2  = (['Row1Col1', 'Row1Col2'],
              ['Row2Col1', 'Row2Col2']);

my $worksheet = ['NAME',{-data => \@data2}];
# create a new instance
my $excel2    = Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel->new(-worksheets => [$worksheet]);

# add headers to 'NAME'
$excel2->set_headers('NAME',[qw/this is a test/]);
# append data to 'NAME'
$excel2->add_row('NAME',[qw/new row/]);

# receive as string
my $string = $excel2->output_as_string();

PRINT INTO FILE

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel;

# data
my @data2  = (['Row1Col1', 'Row1Col2'],
              ['Row2Col1', 'Row2Col2']);

my $worksheet = ['NAME',{-data => \@data2}];
# create a new instance
my $excel2    = Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel->new(-worksheets => [$worksheet]);

# add headers to 'NAME'
$excel2->set_headers('NAME',[qw/this is a test/]);
# append data to 'NAME'
$excel2->add_row('NAME',[qw/new row/]);

# print into file
$excel2->output_to_file("my_excel.xls");

PRINT INTO FILE (break worksheets)

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel;

# create a new instance
my $excel    = Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel->new();

my @header = qw(Header1 Header2);
my @data   = (['Row1Col1', 'Row1Col2'],
              ['Row2Col1', 'Row2Col2']);
for(0..70000){
  push(@data,[qw/1 2 4 6 8/]);
}
# add worksheets
$excel->add_worksheet('Name of Worksheet',{-headers => \@header, -data => \@data});
$excel->add_row('Name of Worksheet',[qw/1 2 3 4 5/]);

# print into file
$excel->output_to_file("my_excel.xls",10000);

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and IO::Scalar

BUGS and COMMENTS

Feel free to contact me and send me bugreports or comments on this module. Feature Requests or discussions are welcome at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/SpreadsheetSimpleExcel

AUTHOR

Renee Baecker, <module@renee-baecker.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.6.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

To install Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

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