#!perl -w
use warnings;
use strict;
## Author: Devin Austin
## Excel to Text script
## very simple script...
## enter file name and get going!
## Usage: convert.pl <excel file> <directory to save text file to>
## Thanks to GrandFather for pretty much re-factoring my original code
## into this version.
## mostly straight out of the docs...

use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
my $oExcel = new Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
my $dir = $ARGV[1];
chomp $dir;

unless (-d $dir) {
   print "Can't find directory $dir";
   exit;
}

my $filename = "$dir/$ARGV[0]";
chomp $filename;

unless (-e $filename) {
   print "Can't find file $filename";
   exit ;
}

my $fullfilename = "$filename.txt";
## start work
print "Converting...";
#1.1 Normal Excel97
open E2T, ">", $fullfilename or die $!;

my $oBook = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook->Parse($filename);
my($iR, $iC, $oWkS, $oWkC);

foreach my $oWkS (@{$oBook->{Worksheet}}) {
   
    print "--------- SHEET:", $oWkS->{Name}, "\n";
    print E2T $oWkS->{Name}, "|";
    next unless defined $oWkS->{MinRow} and defined $oWkS->{MaxRow};
   
    for my $iR ($oWkS->{MinRow} .. $oWkS->{MaxRow}) {
      for my $iC ($oWkS->{MinCol} .. $oWkS->{MaxCol}) {
          $oWkC = $oWkS->{Cells}[$iR][$iC];
          next if ! defined $oWkC;
         
          print "( $iR , $iC ) =>", $oWkC->Value, "\n" if($oWkC);
          print E2T $oWkC->Value, "|";
      }
   }
   
   print E2T "\n";
}
close E2T;

print "Finished!";
exit;

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