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moshezri
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Jan 8, 2009, 6:53 AM

Post #1 of 4 (3004 views)
Excel search Can't Post
Hello all,

i wrote a phone book (GUI/TK) and the database i have to use is excel,

can someone please tell me how to extract data from the right columns.

for example:

when entering the name John all John's info will be display (phone,mail etc...).

Thanks


FishMonger
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Jan 8, 2009, 7:03 AM

Post #2 of 4 (3003 views)
Re: [moshezri] Excel search [In reply to] Can't Post
Excel is not a database, it's a spreadsheet program.

Did you save the file in xls format or csv?


moshezri
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Jan 8, 2009, 8:27 AM

Post #3 of 4 (2999 views)
Re: [moshezri] Excel search [In reply to] Can't Post
xls file


FishMonger
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Jan 8, 2009, 10:19 AM

Post #4 of 4 (2992 views)
Re: [moshezri] Excel search [In reply to] Can't Post
There are several modules on CPAN that are used to parse xls files, such as Spreadsheet::ParseExcel or Win32::OLE

http://search.cpan.org/~jmcnamara/Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.43/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/Win32-OLE-0.1709/lib/Win32/OLE.pm

You could even access it as if it were an sql database with the use of DBI and DBD::Excel

http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.607/DBI.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~kwitknr/DBD-Excel-0.06/Excel.pm

Another option would be to save the file in csv format and use DBD::CSV
http://search.cpan.org/~jzucker/DBD-CSV-0.22/lib/DBD/CSV.pm

 
 


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