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Tuesday January 14, 2003
10:09 PM

Getting ahead of myself with the spreadsheet port

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For the next minor release of my spreadsheet port, I've decided to add in the write_row and write_col methods, even though those methods weren't added until later in John's original code.

I work regularly with fetching rows out of a database and slapping the results into a spreadsheet. I imagine a hefty chunk of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel users do the same - witness Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::FromDB. The ability to simply insert a fetch'ed row is just too handy (versus writing your own code to iterate over a fetch'ed record). Based on John's comments in his CHANGES file, I'm guessing people will appreciate it.


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  • For the next minor release of my spreadsheet port, I've decided to add in the write_row and write_col methods, even though those methods weren't added until later in John's original code.

    The reason that I omitted write_row() and write_col() methods from Spreadsheet::WriteExcel [freshmeat.net] for so long was because I thought that it was a relatively simple matter to create these functions externally.

    Any time that I spend implementing, testing and documenting a feature like this means less time spent implementing a f

    • There are some other features, such as support for "A1" notation, that I should have put in earlier.

      I thought about working on that sooner, but I never use it and never had a desire to. Frankly, I don't understand why anyone on the programmer's side of things would want to use that notation, unless it's some sort of conceptualization issue. Maybe I'm missing something.

      In any case, I'll resist adding that feature until I receive a few requests, at least.

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