#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use DBI;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;

my $listId;
my $p_filename;

$listId = shift;
$p_filename = shift;


use constant C_HEADING => 0;
use constant C_WIDTH   => 1;
my @columns = (
    ['AgentID',      10 ], 
    ['Question1',    20 ], 
    ['Question2',    20 ], 
    ['Question3',    11 ], 
    ['Question4',    11 ], 
    ['Question5',    24 ], 
    ['Question6',    11 ], 
    ['Question7',    22 ],
    ['Question8',    22 ]
);



my $workbook        = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new($p_filename);
my $sheet           = $workbook->add_worksheet("Data");
my $default_format  = $workbook->add_format(num_format => '@'); $defau
+lt_format->set_font('Verdana'); $default_format->set_border(1);
my $bold_format     = $workbook->add_format(); $bold_format->set_font(
+'Verdana'); $bold_format->set_bold(); $bold_format->set_border(1);

$sheet->write(0,$_,$columns[$_]->[C_HEADING], $bold_format) for (0..$#
+columns);
$sheet->set_column($_, $_, $columns[$_]->[C_WIDTH]) for (0..$#columns)
+;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:ODBC:Driver={SQL Server};Server=server;Dat
+abase=database;Trusted_Connection=Yes") or die("\n\nCONNECT ERROR:\n\
+n$DBI::errstr");

my $sth = $dbh->prepare(<<EOQ
SELECT Custom1 AS AgentID, Custom13 AS Question1, Custom14 AS Question
+2, Custom15 AS Question3, Custom16 AS Question4, Custom17 AS Question
+5, Custom18 AS Question6, Custom19 AS Question7, Custom20 AS Question
+8
FROM [purl].[dbo].[MailFiles]
WHERE ListId='$listId' AND Completed ='1'
EOQ
);

$sth->execute();

my $i = 1;
my $row;
while ( $row = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) {

    $sheet->write_string($i,$_,$row->[$_], $default_format) for (0..$#
+$row);
    $i++;
}

$sheet->activate();

exit;

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I wrote this code to connect to a database and retrieve 9 columns my columns will have this values AgentID = 1234 Question1 = strongly agree Question2 = agree Question3 = strongly disagree Question4 = etc Question5 =etc Question6 =etc Question7 =etc Question8 = etc

I need to change the value of the questions from string to numeric

Strongly Agree – 5 Agree – 4 Neutral – 3 Disagree – 2 Strongly Disagree -1

then write it back to the excel file

In reply to Trying to manipulate data by emadmahou

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