Questions tagged [parseexcel]
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How do I read the content of an Excel spreadsheet using Ruby?
I am trying to read an Excel spreadsheet file with Ruby, but it is not reading the content of the file.
This is my script
book = Spreadsheet.open 'myexcel.xls';
sheet1 = book.worksheet 0
sheet1.each do |row|
puts row.inspect ;
puts row.format…

Pavunkumar
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Is there a way to read comments/notes of a cell in an excel file with ParseExcel/ParseXLSX?
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
...
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my $cell = $worksheet->get_cell($row,$column);
$cell_value = $name->value();
This gets the value stored in the cell. If I have comments/notes associated with this cell, how can I fetch it?
Thanks!

kvi
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Need help installing Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
I am trying to install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel to use with ExcelLatex. This is what I did:
Installed Active perl, Then install CPAN.pm by perl -MCPAN -e shell
I was asked for configuration and mirror site and I let perl do the auoconfoguration. At…

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Read and convert monthly grid excel file data in javascript
I tried to read monthly food menu from excel in javascript (actually .net core mvc project). But the excel template not usual, the excel data looks like a monthly, how can I parse and read this ?

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Format of the date field gets changed through Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
I have an Excel Sheet (A.xls) which has following content:
Date,Value
10/1/2020,36.91
10/2/2020,36.060001
I got following output using same script with Perl v5.6.1 on solaris 5.8
>>./a4_test.pl
INFO>Excel File=A.xls,#WorkSheet=1,AuthorID=Sahoo,…

Ashish Sahoo
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Install problems with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
I am trying to install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel from CPAN and experiencing some problems. I have installed other packages before without issue.
I first tried cpanm Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, but it ultimately fails on the building and testing stage.
I…

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Spreadsheet:: ParseExcel in PERL query
I am writing a PERL code to pick values from specific rows of a particular excel sheet. I am using the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module for this purpose. I have written this code as of now
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtDefault;
use…

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how to read content of cell nt formula in perl
I do have the following code in perl that open an excel file and read row:column, what I want to get is the content of the cell not formula, the get_cell (0,1) and (1,1) and (2,1) has some formula, and value, I'm not interested in formula just the…

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Perl - Unable to access Excel File
I'm trying to explore Perl and do some sample code. I tried to read excel use Perl. I downloaded Spreadsheet-ParseExcel and installed in my machine. I tried below code:
Code
#!"C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe"
use CGI;
use strict;
use…

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Spreadsheet::ParseExcel row_range differs from gnumeric
I'm having trouble getting Spreadsheet::ParseExcel to parse an .xls spreadsheet generated by gnumeric, and I think the problem is with gnumeric. ParseExcel's row_range() method is returning (0, 500) when only 285 rows are in use.
I tried selecting…

Chap
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Prevent losing graphs when using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
I need to edit the data and graphs of an excel file. I can edit the data but graphs are lost.
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel says:
You can only rewrite the features that Spreadsheet::WriteExcel supports so macros, graphs and some other features in the…

user2190527
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ParseExcel worksheet get_name()
Using certain old versions of ActivePerl, reading a spreadsheet:
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
$excel = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook->Parse("some file");
foreach $sheet (@{$excel->{Worksheet}}){
print $sheet->get_name();
}
Error: Can't…

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ParseExcel ignoring qoutes in cells
I have cells in my spreadsheet which are containing quoted strings but when I read via the method cell->value the qoutes are ignored/dropped.
"String" gets read as String
What is the correct way to have the quotes not ignored via this Perl module -…

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Excel sheet parsing
I'm trying to parse one Excel spreadsheet which has a field named "Status" (possible values PASS/FAIL).
I want the total no. of records for PASS status and that of FAIL status.
Can anyone help me?

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Spreadsheet::ParseExcel won't read the file
I have a Perl script that I wrote and ran in windows that reads the contents of a .xls file using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. When I transfer the xls file and the perl script over to a linux server to run it, it can't read any of the data in the xls…

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