NAME
   Spreadsheet::Write - Writer for spreadsheet files (CSV, XLS, XLSX, ...)

SYNOPSIS
   Basic usage:

       use Spreadsheet::Write;

       my $sp=Spreadsheet::Write->new(file => 'test.xlsx');

       $sp->addrow('hello','world');

       $sp->close();

   More possibilities:

       use Spreadsheet::Write;

       my $sp=Spreadsheet::Write->new(
           file    => $ARGV[0],        # eg. test.xls, test.xlsx, or test.csv
           sheet   => 'Test Data',
           styles  => {
               money   => {
                   format      => '$#,##0.00;-$#,##0.00',
               },
               bright  => {
                   font_weight => 'bold',
                   font_color  => 'blue',
                   font_style  => 'italic',
               },
           },
       );

       $sp->addrow(
           'col1',
           { content => [ 'col2', 'col3', 'col4' ], style => 'bright' },
           { content => 'col5', bg_color => 'gray' },
           'col6',
       );

       $sp->freeze(1,0);

       $sp->addrow(
           { content => [ 1, 1.23, 123.45, -234.56 ], style => 'money' },
       );

       my @data=(
           [ qw(1 2 3 4) ],
           [ qw(a s d f) ],
           [ qw(z x c v b) ],
           # ...
       );

       foreach my $row (@data) {
           $sp->addrow({ style => 'ntext', content => $row });
       }

       $sp->close();

DESCRIPTION
   "Spreadsheet::Write" writes files in CSV, XLS (Microsoft Excel 97), XLSX
   (Microsoft Excel 2007), and other formats if their drivers exist. It is
   especially suitable for building various dumps and reports where rows
   are built in sequence, one after another.

   The same calling format and options can be used with any output file
   format. Unsupported options are ignored where possible allowing for easy
   run-time selection of the output format by file name.

METHODS
 new ()
       $spreadsheet = Spreadsheet::Write->new(
           file            => 'table.xls',
           styles          => {
               mynumber        => '#,##0.00',
           }
       );

   Creates a new spreadsheet object. It takes a list of options. The
   following are valid:

       file        filename of the new spreadsheet or an IO handle (mandatory)
       encoding    encoding of output file (optional, csv format only)
       format      format of spreadsheet - 'csv', 'xls', 'xlsx', or 'auto' (default)
       sheet       Sheet name (optional, not supported by some formats)
       styles      Defines cell formatting shortcuts (optional)

   If file format is 'auto' (or omitted), the format is guessed from the
   filename extention. If impossible to guess the format defaults to 'csv'.

   An IO-like handle can be given as 'file' argument (IO::File, IO::Scalar,
   etc). In this case the format argument is mandatory.

   Default styles are: header => { font_weight => 'bold', type => 'string',
   }, ntext => { format => '@', type => 'string', }, money => { format =>
   '$#,##0.00;-$#,##0.00', },

 addrow(arg1,arg2,...)
   Adds a row into the spreadsheet. Takes arbitrary number of arguments.
   Arguments represent cell values and may be strings or hash references.
   If an argument is a hash reference, it takes the following structure:

       content         value to put into the cell
       style           formatting style, as defined in new(), scalar or array-ref
       type            type of the content (defaults to 'auto')
       format          number format (see Spreadsheet::WriteExcel for details)
       font_weight     weight of font. Only valid value is 'bold'
       font_style      style of font. Only valid value is 'italic'
       font_decoration 'underline' or 'strikeout' (or both, space separated)
       font_face       font of column; default is 'Arial'
       font_color      color of font (see Spreadsheet::WriteExcel for color values)
       font_size       size of font
       bg_color        color of background (see Spreadsheet::WriteExcel for color values)
       align           alignment
       valign          vertical alignment
       width           column width, excel units (only makes sense once per column)
       height          row height, excel units (only makes sense once per row)
       comment         hidden comment for the cell, where supported

   Styles can be used to assign default values for any of these formatting
   parameters thus allowing easy global changes. Other parameters specified
   override style definitions.

   Example:

       my $sp=Spreadsheet::Write->new(
           file        => 'employees.xlsx',
           styles      => {
               header => { font_weight => 'bold' },
           },
       );
       $sp->addrow(
           { content => 'First Name', font_weight => 'bold' },
           { content => 'Last Name', font_weight => 'bold' },
           { content => 'Age', style => 'header' },
       );
       $sp->addrow("John","Doe",34);
       $sp->addrow("Susan","Smith",28);

   Note that in this example all header cells will have identical
   formatting even though some use direct formats and one uses style.

   If you want to store text that looks like a number you might want to use
   { type => 'string', format => '@' } arguments. By default the type
   detection is automatic, as done by for instance Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
   write() method.

   It is also possible to supply an array reference in the 'content'
   parameter of the extended format. It means to use the same formatting
   for as many cells as there are elements in this array. Useful for
   creating header rows. For instance, the above example can be rewritten
   as:

       $sp->addrow(
           { style => 'header',
             content => [ 'First Name','Last Name','Age' ],
           }
       );

   Not all styling options are supported in all formats. Where they are not
   supported they are safely ignored.

 addrows([$cell1A,$cell1B,...],[$cell2A,$cell2B,...],...)
   Shortcut for adding multiple rows.

   Each argument is an arrayref representing a row.

   Any argument that is not a reference (i.e. a scalar) is taken to be the
   title of a new worksheet.

 addsheet(name)
   Adds a new sheet into the document and makes it active. Subsequent
   addrow() calls will add rows to that new sheet.

   For CSV format this call is NOT ignored, but produces a fatal error
   currently.

 freeze($row, $col, $top_row, $left_col))
   Sets a freeze-pane at the given position, equivalent to
   Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->freeze_panes(). Ignored for CSV files.

 close ()
   Finalizes the spreadsheet and closes the file. It is a good idea to call
   this method explicitly instead of relying on perl's garbage collector
   because for many formats the file may be in an unusable state until this
   method is called.

   Once a spreadsheet is closed, calls to addrow() will fail.

LICENSE
   This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHORS
   Written by Nick Eremeev <[email protected]>; Andrew Maltsev
   <[email protected]>; <https://ejelta.com/>

   Multiple backends implementation and other patches by Toby Inkster
   <[email protected]> (see also a full fork at Spreadsheet::Wright).