CHARTEX(1)

💅 CHARTEX (1) 💅

okay so real talk — this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, and it's about to be your new fave little utility. buckle up, bestie 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

chartex — literally a utility to extract charts from an Excel file so you can yeet them into a Spreadsheet::WriteExcel file. iconic behavior, no cap ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: this program extracts one or more charts from an Excel file in binary format. then those charts can be popped into a Spreadsheet::WriteExcel file. it's giving middleman but make it useful 💖

if you want the deep lore, go check out the add_chart_ext() section of the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel documentation — that's where the details live, iykyk 👑

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

chartex [--chartname --help --man] file.xls

and the options, laid out for you 🫶

    Options:
        --chartname -c  The root name for the extracted charts,
                        defaults to "chart".

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --chartname, -c — sets the root name for the extracted charts. defaults to "chart". for example:

$ chartex file.xls

Extracting "Chart1" to chart01.bin

$ chartex -c mychart file.xls

Extracting "Chart1" to mychart01.bin

see how the root name just slides right in there? slay 💅

• --help, -h — prints a brief help message and exits. short and sweet, we love a low-commitment king 🎀
• --man, -m — prints the manual page and exits. yes, the whole thing. the full essay. main character energy 👑

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

John McNamara — jmcnamara@cpan.org 🫶

💜 VERSION 💜

Version 0.02. ✨

🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

© MMV, John McNamara.

All Rights Reserved. This program is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself. 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie — no notes, we ate 🔥

signing off from the fine print: this manual came to you via perl v5.42.0, dated 2023-10-05, and it's a CHARTEX(1) moment fr fr 🦋💜