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NAME ^

Spreadsheet::Engine::Fn::text - base class for text functions

SYNOPSIS ^

  use base 'Spreadsheet::Engine::Fn::text';

  sub calculate { ... }

DESCRIPTION ^

This provides a base class for spreadsheet functions that operate on text, such as UPPER(), LOWER(), REPLACE() etc.

INSTANCE METHODS ^

calculate

Subclasses should provide this as the workhorse. It should either return the result, or die with an error message (that will be trapped and turned into a spreadsheet error).

result_type

Most text functions return a text string, so we provide that as the default value. Functions that return something different (e.g. LENGTH) should override this.

HISTORY ^

This is a Modified Version of code extracted from SocialCalc::Functions in SocialCalc 1.1.0

COPYRIGHT ^

Portions (c) Copyright 2005, 2006, 2007 Software Garden, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Portions (c) Copyright 2007 Socialtext, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Portions (c) Copyright 2007, 2008 Tony Bowden

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The contents of this file are subject to the Artistic License 2.0; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0