#!/usr/bin/perl -w
###############################################################################
#
# Example of how to use the WriteExcel module
#
# Simple program to convert a CSV comma-separated value file to an Excel file.
# This is more or less an non-op since Excel can read CSV files.
# The program uses Text::CSV_XS to parse the CSV.
#
# Usage: csv2xls.pl file.csv newfile.xls
#
#
# NOTE: This is only a simple conversion utility for illustrative purposes.
# For converting a CSV or Tab separated or any other type of delimited
# text file to Excel I recommend the more rigorous csv2xls program that is
# part of H.Merijn Brand's Text::CSV_XS module distro.
#
# See the examples/csv2xls link here:
# L<http://search.cpan.org/~hmbrand/Text-CSV_XS/MANIFEST>
#
# reverse('©'), March 2001, John McNamara, jmcnamara@cpan.org
#
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
use Text::CSV_XS;
# Check for valid number of arguments
if (($#ARGV < 1) || ($#ARGV > 2)) {
die("Usage: csv2xls csvfile.txt newfile.xls\n");
};
# Open the Comma Separated Variable file
open (CSVFILE, $ARGV[0]) or die "$ARGV[0]: $!";
# Create a new Excel workbook
my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new($ARGV[1]);
my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet();
# Create a new CSV parsing object
my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new;
# Row and column are zero indexed
my $row = 0;
while (<CSVFILE>) {
if ($csv->parse($_)) {
my @Fld = $csv->fields;
my $col = 0;
foreach my $token (@Fld) {
$worksheet->write($row, $col, $token);
$col++;
}
$row++;
}
else {
my $err = $csv->error_input;
print "Text::CSV_XS parse() failed on argument: ", $err, "\n";
}
}