Spreads...el::Big(3)

okay bestie, welcome to the Spreads...el::Big(3) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation. It’s giving “vintage Perl module” energy, but don’t worry — I got you. 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

Big — A class for creating Excel files > 7MB. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fr fr, the synopsis is just this one line:

Use of this module is deprecated. See below.

🚨 Warning, bestie: this module is deprecated — the page says “See below,” so the tea is literally in the next section. 🚨

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here’s the lore: the module was a sub-class of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, and it was used for creating Excel files greater than 7MB. But plot twist — it is no longer required and is now deprecated. 💀

As of version 2.17, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel can create files larger than 7MB directly if OLE::Storage_Lite is installed. So yeah, the special ::Big era is over. ✨

This module only exists for backwards compatibility. If your programs use ::Big, you should convert them to use Spreadsheet::WritExcel directly. That’s the whole assignment, bestie. 🫶

🎀 REQUIREMENTS 🎀

You need OLE::Storage_Lite. That’s the requirement. Periodt. 🎀

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

John McNamara — jmcnamara@cpan.org 👑

💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright MM-MMX, John McNamara.

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

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