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Changes for version v0.38.16 - 2015-09-20

  • ! Closes issue #72 in github (hopefully) with safer testing of length in a variable ! Closes issue #75 in github with safer setup of cell instances with empty cell_coercion attributes ! Closes issue #74 in github with safer testing for the apple date flag ! Closes issue #73 in github with safer coercion assesment of date coercions
  • Added caching for the styles sub-file which should noticibly speed up parsing
  • Added a :debug flag tgit hat turns should_warn on. This is mostly useful to get warns on build fails since the warnings can be turned on after build as desired.
  • Added "5.22"(back) and added "dev" and "5.10.1" to the TravisCI testing ! Closes #71 in github with updates to the import statement
  • fetchrow_array and fetchrow_arrayref no longer report undef for the positions representing the remaining empty cells in a row ( the list just ends )
  • Treat stored empty stings -''- as empty cells for the 'values_only' attribute This will still skip the empty string cells even if 'empty_return_type' is set to empty_string
  • Rewrote XMLToPerlData and moved it up one file layer since it is more reader agnostic This is a first step to integrating a file type agnostic XMLReader #4 (milestone v0.40.2) with improved XMLtoPerl conversions. This might break implementations that are built on the guts of this thing. Contact me with questions or concerns. Top level API implementations should be unaffected. I also moved the test file to reflect this change
  • Changed the name of the Worksheet class to WorksheetToRow as a first step in moving this to a role sometime in the future to eliminate inheritance as much as possible. (See the worksheet interface change below) I changed the name of the test to match
  • Changed the name of the GetCell role to Worksheet with the intent of treating it as an interface I moved it up one layer in the folder structure I removed the worksheet pod (now in the same folder) since the documentation was duplicated there I moved the test and changed the name to reflect this change
  • Re-wrote the worksheet parser to parse whole rows at a time rather than one cell at a time This unkinks some of the cruft created when adding tracking of hidden_columns (v0.38.12)
  • Added a Row Class to hold and process cell data within a row
  • Added support for .xlsm files closes #68 in github This does not include any reading or handling of 'vbaProject.bin' It should be safe even with viruses if the reader doesn't mess with it ! Changed the %ENV test to a caller test run in BUILDARGS ( during ->new ) This should handle all useage by Spreadsheet::Read (enforces the :like_ParseExcel flag)

Documentation

Read xlsx calcChain files with LibXML
Read xlsx chartsheets with LibXML
Read xlsx sharedStrings files with LibXML
Read xlsx styles files with LibXML

Modules

Read xlsx spreadsheet files with LibXML
Translate Excel cell IDs to column row
Moose class for remembering the last error
Default xlsx number formats and localization
A type library for the LibXML xlsx reader
Top level XLSX::Reader Worksheet interface
A LibXML::Reader xlsx base class
A LibXML::Reader calcChain base class
A LibXML::XMLReader chartsheet base class
A LibXML::Reader sharedStrings base class
A LibXML::Reader styles base class
Role to turn xlsx XML to perl hashes