Hi Monks I have a few scripts that convert an xlsx file to a tab seperated file, which then remove any commas, duplicates and then splits it by commas. (i do this to make sure users have not put any commas in a colomn) I then do some stuff. and then convert it back to an xlsx file. This has always worked fine. But instead of opening and closing files all the time i thought i would push the file to an array and then convert it to an xlsx at the end. Unfortunatly when i try and convert back to an xlsx file it is creating a newline in the space between the name. If i OUTPUT to a csv file then Open it and convert to an xlsx file it works fine.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Spreadsheet::BasicRead;
use Excel::Writer::XLSX;
local $" = "'\n'";        
open( STDERR, ">&STDOUT" );
#covert to csv 
my $xlsx_WSD = ( "C:\\Temp\\testing_file.xlsx"),, 1;
my @csvtemp;

        if ( -e $xlsx_WSD ) {
my $ss   = new Spreadsheet::BasicRead($xlsx_WSD) or die;
    my $col = '';
    my $row  = 0;
    while ( my $data = $ss->getNextRow() ) {
        $row++;
        $col= join( "\t", @$data );
            push @csvtemp,  $col . "\n" if ( $col ne "" );
    }
}    
        else {
            print "    C:\\Temp\\testing_file.xlsx file EXISTS ...!!\n
+";
            print "    please investigate and use the restore option i
+f required !..\n";
    exit;
}
;
my @arraynew;
my %seen;
our $Header_row = shift (@csvtemp);  
  foreach (@csvtemp){
chomp;
     $_ =~ s/,//g;                                        
     $_ =~ s/\t/,/g;                                    

        #    print $_ . "\n" if !$seen{$_}++ ;
            push @arraynew, $_ . "\n" if !$seen{$_}++ ;    #remove any
+ dupes

}


#covert back to  xlsx 
my $workbook  = Excel::Writer::XLSX->new("C:\\Temp\\testing_filet.xlsx
+");
my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet();

my ( $x, $y ) = ( 0, 0 );
    while (<@arraynew>) {




my @list = split /,/;
        foreach my $c (@list) {
                        $worksheet->write( $x, $y++, $c );
    }
                        $x++;
                        $y = 0;
}



__DATA__

Animal    keeper    M/F    Years    START DATE    FRH    FSM
GIRAFFE    JAMES LE    M    5    10/12/2007        Y
HIPPO    JACKIE LEAN    F    6    11/12/2007        Y
ZEBRA    JAMES LEHERN    M    7    12/12/2007        Y
GIRAFFE    AMIE CAHORT    M    5    13/12/2012        Y
GIRAFFE    MICKY JAMES    M    5    14/06/2007        Y
MEERKAT    JOHN JONES    M    9    15/12/2007    v    v
LEOPPARD    JIM LEE    M    8    16/12/2002        


unexpected result 

GIRAFFE    JAMES                
LE    M    5    10/12/2007        Y
"
HIPPO"    JACKIE                
LEAN    F    6    11/12/2007        Y
"
ZEBRA"    JAMES                
LEHERN    M    7    12/12/2007        Y
"
GIRAFFE"    AMIE                
CAHORT    M    5    13/12/2012        Y
"
GIRAFFE"    MICKY                
JAMES    M    5    14/06/2007        Y
"
MEERKAT"    JOHN                
JONES    M    9    15/12/2007    v    v
"
LEOPPARD"    JIM                
LEE    M    8    16/12/2002
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