extract_vba - A utility to extract a VBA project from an Excel 2007+ xlsm file.
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Copyright
(c) MMXV, John McNamara.
All Rights Reserved. This program is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under
the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.36.0 2023-04-12 EXTRACT_VBA(1p)
Description
This utility is used to extract the VBA project binary from an Excel 2007+ xlsm file. The VBA project
can then be added to an Excel::Writer::XLSX file to enable it to have macros.
An "xlsm" file is a version of an Excel "xlsx" file that contains an additional VBA project binary file.
The "xlsm" file format is a collection of mainly XML files in a ZIP container.
The extracted VBA project is an OLE Compound Document in binary format. It is named "vbaProject.bin" and
is generally located in the "xl" directory of the "xlsm" file.
See the "add_vba_project()" section of the Excel::Writer::XLSX documentation for more details.
Note: you can also extract the VBA project from an "xlsm" file using the standard Linux "unzip" command:
unzip -j macro01.xlsm xl/vbaProject.bin
On Windows you can use any suitable Unzip application.
Name
extract_vba - A utility to extract a VBA project from an Excel 2007+ xlsm file.
Options
--helpor-h
Print the help documentation.
Synopsis
$ extract_vba file.xlsm
Extracted 'vbaProject.bin' successfully
$ extract_vba -h # For help.
Version
Version 0.01.
