Excel:...Backend(3pm)

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💖 Excel::ValueReader::XLSX::Backend 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to Excel::ValueReader::XLSX::Backend — she's an abstract class and she's the parent for the Regex and LibXML backends. 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so Excel::ValueReader::XLSX has two possible implementation backends for parsing "XLSX" files, and they're literally:

  • Excel::ValueReader::XLSX::Backend::Regex — based on regular expressions 🧚
  • Excel::ValueReader::XLSX::Backend::LibXML — based on the libxml2 library 🦋

both backends share some common features, so the present class implements those common features. 💅

real talk tho — this is about internal implementation. it should be of no interest to external users of the module. this is not your moment, bestie, it's the internals' moment. 🙈

🌸 ATTRIBUTES 🌸

a backend instance possesses the following attributes, no cap:

  • frontend — a weak reference to the frontend instance 👑
  • zip — an Archive::Zip instance for accessing the contents of the "xlsx" file 🎀
  • date_styles — an array of numeric styles for presenting dates and times. Styles are either Excel's builtin styles, or custom styles defined in the workbook. ⭐
  • strings — an array of all shared strings within the workbook 🍓
  • workbook_data — some metadata information about the workbook 💜

💀 ABSTRACT METHODS 💀

not defined in this abstract class, but implemented in subclasses. (she's giving "i set the vibe, you do the work" energy and honestly? iconic.) ✨

  • values — inspects all cells within the XSLX files and returns a bi-dimensional array of values. 🌈

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Laurent Dami, <dami at cpan.org>

Copyright 2021 by Laurent Dami.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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