[Rt-devel] Re: [rt-users] Problem with Perl script for RT

Ruslan U. Zakirov cubic at acronis.ru
Tue Jun 15 06:15:40 EDT 2004


Krzysztof Opała wrote:
> Sorry for disturbing you but I’m completely new to object-oriented Perl, 
> and I’ve got a problem that completely not able to cope with:
> 
> What I wanna do is put some data about tickets into Excel file (sth like 
> a report done with Search in RT).
> 
> I’m downloaded Spreadsheet::WriteExcel library and tried to make sth 
> using it. I managed to mage a file starting a perl script from command 
> line so the library is working. But I really can’t make it working with 
> my RT.
> 
> Can anybody show me how to run this in RT using for instance a very 
> simple code:

Comments below.

> 
>  
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> 
>  
> 
> use strict;
> 
> use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
> 
> # Create a new Excel workbook called perl.xls
> 
> my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("perl.xls");
I think that constructor return undef because it can't create perl.xls 
in CWD. You should use some base dir for *.xls files. Also you can't use 
one file name.
> 
> my $worksheet = $workbook->addworksheet();
> 
> # Write some text and some numbers
> 
> # Row and column are zero indexed
> 
> $worksheet->write(0, 0, "The Perl Journal");
> 
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