On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <ludz_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi: > > I'm writing a CGI application in PERL running on HP-UX that needs to export > its query results to an Excel file. > > My alternatives are : > a) export it using perl module Text::CSV, but the set the CGI headers to > Excel via print header(-type => 'application/vnd.ms-excel'); > b) Use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel to generate excel binary files. > > I'm inclined to use method "A" as I've used Text::CSV before, and I see > that > Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is dependent on module Win32::OLE (Not sure if > Win32::OLE will work HP-UX or UNIX / Linux systems). > > Thoughts? Anybody here that used Perl CGI and Excel before? Thanks in > advance
Task::Kensho[0] lists several modules for Excel parsing (here's a list straight out of its Makefile.PL): feature 'Excel / CSV', -default => 0, 'Text::CSV_XS' => 0, 'Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple' => 0, 'Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple' => 0, ; I have these installed on my Ubuntu (along with other Task::Kensho modules) as I use them myself, albeit not often. I notice that you're writing a webapp; have you seen Mojolicious,[1] a web framework (especially useful as by itself it doesn't have any dependencies beyond perl 5.8 ;) Since your app writes an Excel spreadsheet, it'd be probably a cinch to write a MojoX::Renderer for this... >:) Also, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel doesn't particularly depend on Win32::OLE (at least in the latest version.) See the CPAN dependencies chart for this.[2] [0] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Task::Kensho [1] http://mojolicious.org [2] http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple;perl=latest -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
