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in reply to Re: writing with WriteExcel in OO style
in thread writing with WriteExcel in OO style

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I call the set_column() method now immediately after the write() which sets the format as received in the parameter list.

The interface is not very robust yet but the usage seems easy. What do you think?
#!perl -l015 use strict; use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel; my ( $x, $y ) = ( 0, 0 ); my $outputfile = "output.xls"; my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new($outputfile); my $worksheet = $workbook->addworksheet("a test"); my @arr = ( [ "a11", "12", "a13" ], [ "a21", "22", "a23" ], [ "a31", "32", "a33" ], ); my $number = $workbook->addformat( font => "Helvetica", size => 18, num_format => "000000.00", align => "right", ); my $string = $workbook->addformat( font => "Helvetica", size => 18, align => "left", bold => 1, ); # reference to an array of array references containing # array references with pairs of format objects and column widths my $format = [ [ [ $string, 20 ], [ $number, 30 ], [ $string, 20 ] ], # [ [ $number, 20 ], [ $string, 30 ], [ $number, 20 ] ], # [ [ $string, 20 ], [ $number, 30 ], [ $string, 20 ] ], ]; $worksheet->writemany( $x, $y, \@arr, { formatarr => $format } ); $workbook->close(); chomp( my $pwd = `pwd` ); my $file = $pwd . $outputfile; $^O =~ /Mac/ and MacPerl::DoAppleScript( <<eos ); tell application "Microsoft Excel" open "$file" activate end tell eos package Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Worksheet; sub formatmany { my ( $self, @format ) = @_; my ( $rows, $cols ) = $self->checkdim(@format); print "DEBUG: got ( $rows, $cols ) format elements"; return if $cols == 0 or $rows == 0; # colums only if ( $rows == 1 ) { print "DEBUG: setting columns only"; for ( 0 .. $cols - 1 ) { my $colformat = $format[0]->[$_]; die "no format object found" unless ref $colformat eq "Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Format"; $self->set_column( $_, $_, 20, $colformat ); } } elsif ( $cols == 0 ) { $self->set_row(); } else { } } sub writemany { my ( $self, $row, $col, $ref, $options ) = @_; # options understood: # direction => "row"|"col" # formatall => a format object, applied to all cells # formatarr => reference to a multidim. array of format objects # takes precedence over formatall parameter # If this is an arrayref, go through it if ( ref($ref) eq "ARRAY" ) { # Work out the direction we're going my $direction = $options->{direction} || "row"; $direction =~ /^(row)|(col)$/ or $direction = "row"; # Work out the converse direction my $otherdirection = { row => "col", col => "row" }->{$direction}; # Cycle through for (@$ref) { $self->writemany( $row, $col, $_, { direction => $otherdirection, formatall => $options->{formatall} || undef, formatarr => $options->{formatarr} || undef } ); $direction eq "row" ? $row++ : $col++; } } else { if ( ref $options->{formatarr} eq "ARRAY" ) { # print "DEBUG: using formatarr\n"; # get the format my ( $format, $width ) = $self->getformat( $options->{formatarr}, $row, $col ); # check the return value die "no format object found" unless ref $format eq "Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Format"; # write with it $self->write( $row, $col, $ref, $format ); $self->set_column( $col, $col, $width ); } else { $self->write( $row, $col, $ref, $options->{formatall} ); } } } sub getformat { my ( $self, $ref_formatarr, $row, $col ) = @_; my ( $rows, $cols ) = $self->checkdim($ref_formatarr); print "DEBUG: got a ($rows, $cols) matrix"; if ( $rows == 1 ) { return ( $ref_formatarr->[0][$col][0], $ref_formatarr->[0][$col][1] ); } elsif ( $cols == 1 ) { return ( $ref_formatarr->[$row][0][0], $ref_formatarr->[$row][0][1] ); } else { return ( $ref_formatarr->[$row][$col][0], $ref_formatarr->[$row][$col][1] ); } print "DEBUG: internal error - no format determined"; return ( $ref_formatarr->[0][0][0], $ref_formatarr->[0][0][1] ); } # a closure (?) to avoid recomputation of the fixed dimension my ( $checkedrows, $checkedcols ) = ( 0, 0 ); sub checkdim { if ( $checkedrows > 0 and $checkedcols > 0 ) { return ( $checkedrows, $checkedcols ); } else { print "DEBUG: computing dimension..."; my ( $self, $refarr ) = @_; my @arr = @$refarr; my $rows = 0; for (@arr) { $rows++ } my $maxcols = 0; for ( 0 .. $rows - 1 ) { my $row = $_; my $cols = 0; for ( 0 .. $#{ $arr[$row] } ) { $cols++ } $maxcols = $cols > $maxcols ? $cols : $maxcols; } ( $checkedrows, $checkedcols ) = ( $rows, $maxcols ); return ( $rows, $maxcols ); } }