Hi!

AFAIK, ReadData or new methods of Spreadsheet::Read module reads a the whole data into memory by parsing the source file with the proper filter. Then, you can access sheets, rows, columns, ...

I wrote a script to extract some info from many sheets from an ODS file. This file has to be downloaded from the net, but I want to skip this manually done step and to include that step into my script.

Then, I have two choices:

  1. Include some code to download the data in ODS format with LWP or such into a temp file and then use it.
  2. Make Spreadsheet::Read read the file directly from the web service.

As I'd like to try a direct access from this module to the service, and I gave a try using the HTTPS URL instead of a local file name, but it just gave me an empty object ready to receive sheets from other files, and no error.

The manual says it can open a file stream, but I cannot figure out how to set up that stream. Also, the used module Spreadsheet::ReadSXC does not mention streams in its doc, so I'm not sure that this will work.

Any idea, experience, permalink, hint, etc?

Thanks a lot!

In reply to Spreadsheet::Read Open File from the cloud by vitoco

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