Module Spreadsheet::Excel::Writer::Biff8
In: lib/spreadsheet/excel/writer/biff8.rb

This Module collects writer methods such as unicode_string that are specific to Biff8. This Module is likely to be expanded as Support for older Versions of Excel grows and methods get moved here for disambiguation.

Methods

Included Modules

Spreadsheet::Encodings

Public Instance methods

Encode string into a Biff8 Unicode String Header and Body.

Check whether the string data can be compressed (i.e. every second byte is a Null-byte) and perform compression. Returns the data and compression_status (0/1)

Encode string into a Biff8 Unicode String. Header and body are encoded separately by _unicode_string. This method simply combines the two.

[Validate]