The issue with directly manipulating Excel files is that you have to have a good parser and a good writer. Spreadsheet::ParseExcel works quite well as a Parser. We use it at work, quite effectively. (It's impossible to read his code, and there's numerous improvements that can be made to his alpha release, but that's neither here nor there.)

However, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel has been known to have issues, especially when working with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, primarily with formulas.

That aside, those two should make a very good pair.

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In reply to Re: Re: Excel Spreadsheet Data Set by dragonchild
in thread Excel Spreadsheet Data Set by rob_au

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