Class: Excel

Inherits:
GenericSpreadsheet show all
Defined in:
lib/roo/excel.rb

Overview

Class for handling Excel-Spreadsheets

Constant Summary collapse

EXCEL_NO_FORMULAS = 
'formulas are not supported for excel spreadsheets'

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes inherited from GenericSpreadsheet

#default_sheet, #header_line

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from GenericSpreadsheet

#column, #empty?, #find, #first_column, #first_column_as_letter, #first_row, #info, #initialise_tmp, #last_column, #last_column_as_letter, #last_row, #reload, #remove_tmp, #row, #to_csv, #to_xml, #to_yaml

Constructor Details

#initialize(filename, packed = nil, file_warning = :error) ⇒ Excel

Creates a new Excel spreadsheet object. Parameter packed: :zip - File is a zip-file



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# File 'lib/roo/excel.rb', line 112

def initialize(filename, packed = nil, file_warning = :error)
  super()
  @file_warning = file_warning

  filename = open_from_uri(filename) if filename[0,7] == "http://"
  filename = open_from_stream(filename[7..-1]) if filename[0,7] == "stream:"
  filename = unzip(filename) if packed and packed == :zip
  begin
    file_type_check(filename,'.xls','an Excel')
    @filename = filename
    unless File.file?(@filename)
      raise IOError, "file #{@filename} does not exist"
    end
    @workbook = Spreadsheet.open(filename)
    @default_sheet = self.sheets.first
  ensure
    #if ENV["roo_local"] != "thomas-p"
    FileUtils::rm_r(@tmpdir) if @tmpdir
    #end
  end
  @cell = Hash.new
  @cell_type = Hash.new
  @formula = Hash.new
  @first_row = Hash.new
  @last_row = Hash.new
  @first_column = Hash.new
  @last_column = Hash.new
  @header_line = 1
  @cells_read = Hash.new
  @fonts = Hash.new
end

Instance Method Details

#cell(row, col, sheet = nil) ⇒ Object

returns the content of a cell. The upper left corner is (1,1) or (‘A’,1)

Raises:

  • (ArgumentError) 


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# File 'lib/roo/excel.rb', line 154

def cell(row,col,sheet=nil)
  sheet = @default_sheet unless sheet
  raise ArgumentError unless sheet
  read_cells(sheet) unless @cells_read[sheet]
  raise "should be read" unless @cells_read[sheet]
  row,col = normalize(row,col)
  if celltype(row,col,sheet) == :date
    yyyy,mm,dd = @cell[sheet][[row,col]].split('-')
    return Date.new(yyyy.to_i,mm.to_i,dd.to_i)
  end
  if celltype(row,col,sheet) == :string
    return platform_specific_iconv(@cell[sheet][[row,col]])
  else
    return @cell[sheet][[row,col]]
  end
end

#celltype(row, col, sheet = nil) ⇒ Object

returns the type of a cell:

  • :float

  • :string,

  • :date

  • :percentage

  • :formula

  • :time

  • :datetime



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# File 'lib/roo/excel.rb', line 179

def celltype(row,col,sheet=nil)
  sheet = @default_sheet unless sheet
  read_cells(sheet) unless @cells_read[sheet]
  row,col = normalize(row,col)
  begin
    if @formula[sheet][[row,col]]
      return :formula
    else
      @cell_type[sheet][[row,col]]
    end
  rescue
    puts "Error in sheet #{sheet}, row #{row}, col #{col}"
    raise
  end
end

#font(row, col, sheet = nil) ⇒ Object

Given a cell, return the cell’s font



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# File 'lib/roo/excel.rb', line 211

def font(row, col, sheet=nil)
  sheet = @default_sheet unless sheet
  read_cells(sheet) unless @cells_read[sheet]
  row,col = normalize(row,col)
  @fonts[sheet][[row,col]]
end

#formula(row, col, sheet = nil) ⇒ Object

returns NO formula in excel spreadsheets

Raises:



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# File 'lib/roo/excel.rb', line 196

def formula(row,col,sheet=nil)
  raise EXCEL_NO_FORMULAS
end

#formula?(row, col, sheet = nil) ⇒ Boolean

raises an exception because formulas are not supported for excel files

Returns:

  • (Boolean)

Raises:



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# File 'lib/roo/excel.rb', line 201

def formula?(row,col,sheet=nil)
  raise EXCEL_NO_FORMULAS
end

#formulas(sheet = nil) ⇒ Object

returns NO formulas in excel spreadsheets

Raises:



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# File 'lib/roo/excel.rb', line 206

def formulas(sheet=nil)
  raise EXCEL_NO_FORMULAS
end

#sheets ⇒ Object

returns an array of sheet names in the spreadsheet



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# File 'lib/roo/excel.rb', line 145

def sheets
  result = []
  @workbook.worksheets.each do |worksheet| 
    result << normalize_string(worksheet.name)
  end
  return result
end

#to_s(sheet = nil) ⇒ Object

shows the internal representation of all cells mainly for debugging purposes



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# File 'lib/roo/excel.rb', line 220

def to_s(sheet=nil)
  sheet = @default_sheet unless sheet
  read_cells(sheet) unless @cells_read[sheet]
  @cell[sheet].inspect
end