Hi Monks,

I have an excel file, I need to parse each column into an array so that i can make a statement taking on element from each column with one element from another column and adding preformatted text to it. I have tried Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, but that gave me a mapping of each cell as coordinate of row and column to its value.

. Is there a simple way of doing this?

Regards
Sameet


UPDATE
I am pasting the following code that does the job, but the output is incomplete!

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;

my $xls = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new();
my $xls_book = $xls->Parse( 'chrocordinates.xls' );
my $xls_worksheet = $xls_book->{Worksheet}[2];

my @contigs = map { $xls_worksheet->Cell( $_ , 0 )->Value} 1 .. 674;

my @coordinates = map {$xls_worksheet->Cell($_, 1)->Value} 1 .. 674;

#print "@contigs\n";
print "@coordinates\n"; # When print there are 674 entires


my $new_contig;
my $new_coordinate;
do{
        foreach my $contig(@contigs){
                $new_coordinate = shift (@coordinates);
                $new_contig = shift (@contigs);
                print "$new_coordinate => (chromosome => \'\', contig 
+=> $new_contig)\n";
        }
} # prints only 300+ odd entires

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How do i get around the probem

Regards
Sameet

In reply to Parsing Excel Columns into arrays by Sameet

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