How to remove vlookup function but keep the value in pragmatically from perl spreadsheet

Question

I am generating a xl file using perl spreadsheet, it contains 'vlookup' function for one column, the value which generated from the vlookup function is correct but I want to remove this formula and keep its value only,

How to do this?

I'm using

• Excel 2007 SP2
• Spreadsheet::WriteExcel: 2.40

Answer 1

=VLOOKUP is an Excel function. That is, Excel knows how to calculate its result. Perl doesn't.

If you want to replace the VLOOKUP function invocation in the Excel worksheet with a value calculated by your Perl program, you are going to have to write a Perl function VLOOKUP whose behavior matches exactly with Excel's VLOOKUP , and invoke it whenever you find a cell containing VLOOKUP .

On the other hand, if, instead of using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel , you use Win32::OLE , you could replace the cell with its value.