Hi, I have an excel sheet (xlsx format), with just .9888 as value in A1 cell.

Below is my code to read the contents of this file 

#!/bin/env perl
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::Read;
use Spreadsheet::XLSX;

my $lExcelFileData = ReadData("test.xlsx");
#Reading Price information from the input excel sheet using template i
+nformation
my $lRate = $lExcelFileData->[1]{A1};
print "Rate in xlsx file-> ".$lRate . "\n";

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Output on which perl 5.8.8 is installed 

bash-3.2$ ./print_xlsx_file_surya1.pl
test.xlsx
Rate in xlsx file-> 0.99

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It is getting rounded to two decimals. Interesting thing is this 5.8.8 installataion is on sun solaris machine. Where as, I have run the same program in 5.8.9 installated Linux machine, It is giving me correct value as output .9888. The thing is for both installations, i have set the PERL5LIB to the same libraries. Not sure what is going wrong. Working in one environment and not working in other.

I need this without getting rounded. I also tried to print the content of same Read.pm in those two environments - 

5.8.8 (sun solaris):
bash-3.2$ ./print_xlsx_file_surya1.pl
test.xlsx
8->sheet$VAR1 = 'maxcol';
$VAR2 = 1;
$VAR3 = 'maxrow';
$VAR4 = 1;
$VAR5 = 'A1';
$VAR6 = '0.99';
$VAR7 = 'label';
$VAR8 = 'Sheet1';
$VAR9 = 'attr';
$VAR10 = [];
$VAR11 = 'cell';
$VAR12 = [
           [],
           [
             undef,
             '0.98880000000000001'
           ]
         ];
Rate in xlsx file-> 0.99

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The same Read.pm is printing the below in linux version:
:/cmpnt/slt1.0/devlp/SLTICT01/WORK/cmac6844>./print_xlsx_file_surya1.p
+l
test.xlsx
8->sheet$VAR1 = 'maxcol';
$VAR2 = 5;
$VAR3 = 'maxrow';
$VAR4 = 6;
$VAR5 = 'A1';
$VAR6 = '0.9888';
$VAR7 = 'E6';
$VAR8 = '';
$VAR9 = 'label';
$VAR10 = 'Sheet1';
$VAR11 = 'attr';
$VAR12 = [];
$VAR13 = 'cell';
$VAR14 = [
           [],
           [
             undef,
             '0.9888'
           ],
           [],
           [],
           [],
           [
             undef,
             undef,
             undef,
             undef,
             undef,
             undef,
             ''
           ]
         ];
Rate in xlsx file-> 0.9888

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Our production box is sun solaris and i dont want rounding to happen. Please suggest.

This problem is not coming with xls sheet. Only with xlsx am facing this.

In reply to Spreadsheet::Read module is rounding the decimals in XLSX file by char_perl

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