Re: Reading and storing a web page as a spreadsheet query

Using Perl Excel to read and store the figures from the web page that I needed. It would have been useful to store the spreadsheet as a spreadsheet so I used the line (see trial code below) $workbook -> SaveAs ($spsh_file);. The file name did include .xlsx as the extension. This did store the spreadsheet. However, when I tried to open it within Excel I was told that the file extension or format was not valid.

What exactly is "Perl Excel"?

If you're referring to the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module (if so, why not call it by name?), it writes old-fashioned excel files, so give them a .xls extension, not .xlsx.

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Re^2: Reading and storing a web page as a spreadsheet query by merrymonk (Hermit) on Sep 17, 2010 at 10:03 UTC
By Perl Excel I meant just the functions you get with when you 'say' (see the first lines of the code) use Win32::OLE::Const "Microsoft Excel"; I am sorry if this obscured what I was asking.	[reply]
Re^3: Reading and storing a web page as a spreadsheet query by ww (Archbishop) on Sep 17, 2010 at 10:54 UTC
Then perhaps you should refine your search techniques, in addition to those relating to narrative clarity. http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.6/faq/Windows/ActivePerl-Winfaq12.html may be helpful. *And, as planetscape just told you again, </br> is NOT* valid markup in the Monastery.**	[reply]