Question

My Perl script is generating an excel sheet.

Output

P   MON #N/A    XML                 xx  ##  c   2   Yes                                         
B   TUE #N/A    TXT                 xx  ##  b   1   No                                          
D   SUN #N/A    EXE                 xx  ##  a   1   No                                          

I want the excel sheet’s column to be highlighted in different colours

I followed this site

But I am not getting any idea to set different colours for different columns using Perl .

Answer 1

You need to use the set_column() method with a format object that has the bg_color set. Here is a small working example.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;

my $workbook  = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new( 'columns.xls' );
my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet();

# Add some formats with background colors.
my $format1   = $workbook->add_format( bg_color => 'yellow' );
my $format2   = $workbook->add_format( bg_color => 0x32 );

# Format column A with a background color of yellow.
$worksheet->set_column('A:A', undef, $format1);

# Format column c with a new width and light green.
$worksheet->set_column('C:C', 30, $format2);


# Add some data to the worksheet.
my $headings = [ 'Column 1', 'Column 2', 'Column 3' ];
my $data = [
    [ 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ],
    [ 1, 4, 5, 2, 1, 5 ],
    [ 3, 6, 7, 5, 4, 3 ],
];

$worksheet->write( 'A1', $headings );
$worksheet->write( 'A2', $data );

__END__

Which gives you output like this: