Trying to get this perl script to work… its meant to read a directory of excel files and extract a certain row from all files…however when trying to run it on my linux box i get
“Global symbol “@data” requires explicit package name at rowextract.pl line 56.”
can anyone help? im totally new to perl. thanks -
my $excel_directory = 'Invoices';
my $out_directory = 'out';
opendir(EXCELDIR, $excel_directory) || die ("no excel directory");
my @excelfiles = readdir(EXCELDIR);
closedir(EXCELDIR);
chdir($excel_directory);
my $LPHname; # String to hold Local Public Health Name.
my @sheetarray; # Array to hold the row.
my $sheetcount; # Array element in the row.
my $sheetname; # Name of the Excel spreadsheet.
my $sheettemp; # Temporary string to hold row for join.
my $cellnumber; # Cell number in the row.
my $cellwanted; # Cell number in the row.
my $rowwanted; # Row number wanted.
my $county_namecell; # Cell for county name.
my $county_namerow; # Row for county name.
foreach my $exxfilename (@excelfiles){
if ($exxfilename =~ /^\.+.*/) { next; }
my $xls = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple->read($exxfilename);
foreach my $sheet ($xls->sheets) {
$sheetname= $sheet->{sheet}->{Name}; # Sheet Name
if ($sheetname !~ 'Simple Invoice') { next; }
$sheetcount=0;
$county_namecell=3;
$county_namerow=18;
# $cellwanted=1;
$rowwanted=18;
while ($sheet->has_data) {
my @data = $sheet->next_row;
$sheetcount++;
if ($sheetcount==$county_namerow){
$cellnumber=0;
foreach my $ttcell (@data) {
$cellnumber++;
if ($cellnumber != $county_namecell ){next;};
$sheettemp=$sheetarray[$sheetcount];
# $sheetarray[$sheetcount]=join(" ",$sheettemp,$ttcell);
$LPHname=$ttcell;
}
} # Get the name of the Local Health
# if (($sheetcount < ($rowwanted-1)) || ($sheetcount > ($rowwanted+7))){next
;}
if ($sheetcount != $rowwanted){next;};
$cellnumber=0;
$sheetarray[$sheetcount]=join(" ",$sheettemp,$LPHname);
foreach my $ttcell (@data) {
$cellnumber++;
# if ($cellnumber != $cellwanted ){next;};
$sheettemp=$sheetarray[$sheetcount];
$sheetarray[$sheetcount]=join(" ",$sheettemp,$ttcell);
}
}
}
foreach my $sheetline (@sheetarray){
print $sheetline,"
";
}
# foreach my $sheetline (@sheetarray){
# print $sheetline,"
";
# }
exit