Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer

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September 8th, 2006, 01:23 PM

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Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer

I am trying to understand why the Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer outputs dates (EX: 08-01-2006) as '08-01-2006
Please note the single tick preceeding the data. This single tick makes it hard to use the data in the excel file and therefore I need to remove it before outputing the excel file. I use to have all the cells as general numbers and now I have formated the date cells properly but still have the problem.
Is this a bug or feature?

September 8th, 2006, 06:44 PM

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RE: Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer

You need to use the formatting feature to specify the number format for a date and then calculate the number of days since 12/30/1899.

php Code:

Original - php Code

 
// set up workbook and a sheet
$xls =& new Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer();
$xls->send('example.xls');
$sheet =& $xls->addWorksheet('Sheet1');
 
// define date format
$dateFormat =& $xls->addFormat();
$dateFormat->setNumFormat('M/D/YYYY');
 
// calculate date and write
$date_num = Date_Calc::dateToDays(date('d'), date('m'), date('Y')) - Date_Calc::dateToDays(30, 12, 1899);
$sheet->write(0, 0, $date_num, $dateFormat);

I'm using PEAR's Date_Calc class to do the calculation.

Note: the single tick in your post is because that is how Excel specifies "treat this number as text."

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