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Re^10: Iterating Through Cell Blocks with Spreadsheet::Read

by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop)
on Oct 08, 2013 at 22:15 UTC ( [id://1057465]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^9: Iterating Through Cell Blocks with Spreadsheet::Read
in thread Iterating Through Cell Blocks with Spreadsheet::Read

Further to Anonymonk's point:

>perl -wMstrict -le "use Data::Dump; ;; my $sheet = { qw(F29 foo G30 bar) }; dd $sheet; ;; my %sheet; ;; print qq{'$sheet->{F29}'}; print qq{'$sheet{G30}'}; " { F29 => "foo", G30 => "bar" } 'foo' Use of uninitialized value $sheet{"G30"} in concatenation (.) or strin +g at -e line 1. ''

Do you see how the expressions  $sheet->{F29} and  $sheet{G30} access two completely different structures, one of which is empty?

... I can make no sense of the order in which it displays contents.

A hash has no internal "order" except for the pairing of each unique key with its value. Access to and listing of hash keys, values and key/value pairs is (apparently) random. (Update: Don't be mislead by the fact that the order in the dump displayed above matches the order of initialization of the hash reference example: this is entirely adventitious. The dump of a larger hash structure will show greater disorder — but again, a key always cleaves to its value.)

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Re^11: Iterating Through Cell Blocks with Spreadsheet::Read
by Hammer2001 (Novice) on Oct 08, 2013 at 23:00 UTC

    Yes, of course. Thanks for the clarification, AnomalousMonk. Now it makes. sense.

    My objective, once again, is to access F29 through F32 to K29 through K32, in a routine. I can't figure how to iterate over rows through a variable. It only works for me when hash key is explicit (i.e. $name = $sheet{"F28"};). How can I use a variable instead of "F28"?

    Thanks,

    Hammer.

      How can I use a variable instead of "F28"?

      This essentially just goes back to toolic's original reply: make sure that  $sheet is a hash reference and that its content is what you expect; access the contents via  -> arrow notation, forming the hash keys as before with something like  $name = $sheet->{"${_}28"}; etc. (A simple concatenation like  $sheet->{$_ . '28'} would work just as well.)

      Here's the problem restated another way. Here's a script to read Excel XLSX cell values using Spreadsheet::Read:
      #!/usr/bin/perl -w use warnings; use strict; use Spreadsheet::Read; my $name = ""; my $strain = ""; my $initdensity = ""; my $finaldensity = ""; my $avedensity = ""; my $book; my $sheet; my %sheet = (); $book = ReadData ($inbook); my @x = qw(F G H I J K); for my $sheet_index (1 .. $sheet_count) { $sheet = $book->[$sheet_index] or next; foreach (@x) { $name = $sheet{'F28'}; $strain = $sheet{'F29'}; $initdensity = $sheet{'F30'}; $finaldensity = $sheet{'F31'}; $avedensity = $sheet{'F32'}; print "Found sheet with label: $sheet{label}\n"; print "COL=$_ $name $strain $initdensity $finaldensity $avedens +ity\n"; } }
      I need to after reading keys F28..F32 read G28..G32 through K28..K32. How can I key it on values from array @x?

      Thanks, Hammer

        I'm not at all familiar with Spreadsheet::Read (in fact, I'm not greatly familiar with spreadsheets in general), but the code you show seems close to being workable. Do this:

        • Get rid of the whole
              my %sheet = ();
          statement. In the code you show, it seems to be doing nothing more than confusing the heck out of you.
        • The  foreach (@x) { ... } loop seems OK for looping over the values of the  @x array, with the  $_ default scalar being "topicalized" to each column-name string in turn.
        • Form the cell name as has been discussed and access the cell within the  $sheet hash reference (I'm assuming this is a valid operation) using the  -> arrow operator, e.g.
              $name = $sheet->{"${_}28"};
          or perhaps
              $name = $sheet->{$_ . '28'};
        • Report results. Don't just say "it doesn't work", that's almost useless. Describe your expectations and report how the code fails to meet your expectations. Report exact warning or error messages.
        • Ponder the Basic debugging checklist.

        Good luck.

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