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Maintainer(s)' notes
If you are reporting a bug in Spreadsheet::WriteExcel here are some pointers
1) State the issues as clearly and as concisely as possible. A simple program or Excel test file (see below) will often explain the issue better than a lot of text.
2) Provide information on your system, version of perl and module versions. The following program will generate everything that is required. Put this information in your bug report.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "\n Perl version : $]";
print "\n OS name : $^O";
print "\n Module versions: (not all are required)\n";
my @modules = qw(
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
Parse::RecDescent
File::Temp
OLE::Storage_Lite
IO::Stringy
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
Scalar::Util
Unicode::Map
);
for my $module (@modules) {
my $version;
eval "require $module";
if (not $@) {
$version = $module->VERSION;
$version = '(unknown)' if not defined $version;
}
else {
$version = '(not installed)';
}
printf "%21s%-24s\t%s\n", "", $module, $version;
}
__END__
3) Upgrade to the latest version of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel (or at least test on a system with an upgraded version). The issue you are reporting may already have been fixed.
4) Create a small but complete example program that demonstrates your problem. The program should be as small as possible. At the same time it should be a complete program that generates an Excel file. If the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel section is part of a much larger program then simplify it down to the essentials. Simulate any DB reads with an array.
5) Say if you tested with Excel, OpenOffice, Gnumeric or something else. Say which version of that application you used.
6) If you are submitting a patch you should check with the author whether the issue has already been patched or if a fix is in the works. Patches should be accompanied by test cases.
Asking a question
If you would like to ask a more general question there is the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel Google Group.
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Fri Aug 26 05:27:56 2016
philipp.soehnlein [...] nureg.de - Ticket created
Fri Aug 26 06:17:39 2016
jmcnamara [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Fri Aug 26 05:27:56 2016, philipp.soehnlein@nureg.de wrote:
Show quoted text> The documentation says the expression parameter in the filter_column
> function can have operators like `and` and also `or`, which I want to
> use to filter for multiple string values in a column. An example
> expression would be something like that:
> 'x = "FOO" or x = "BAR" or x = "BAZ"'
> This expression will croak with "Incorrect number of tokens in
> expression“, because the check there ...
> only allows 3 or 7 tokens, but not more.
Hi,
This is because Excel only allows 2 conditions in a custom filter. Therefore this expression isn't valid:
'x = "FOO" or x = "BAR" or x = "BAZ"'
The error message could probably be a little better in this case.
Note, if you want to do a filter with multiple equality items you should use the filter_column_list() method in Excel::Writer::XLSX (which is not available in S::WE (or, if I remember correctly, in the xls file format).
John
http://search.cpan.org/~jmcnamara/Excel-Writer-XLSX/lib/Excel/Writer/XLSX.pm#filter_column_list(_$column,_@matches_)
Fri Aug 26 06:17:39 2016
The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
Fri Aug 26 06:18:02 2016
jmcnamara [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'