Hello Monks. I am working on a script that prints a modifiable list of numeric, percentage, and currency values into an .xls file. This file will be viewed by users so formatting matters in this case. When I write a number formatted with commas and a dollar sign or a percentage it displays the information correctly but it also has green triangles, which display a message that states "the number in this cell is formatted as text", in the top left corner of each cell with a formatted number in it. is there a way to tell the excel file to ignore it when this happens or a way to format the values as text that will fix this? i've already tried the below method, it did not work.

$worksheet->write_string(x, y, $value)

here is some code that works perfectly as an example of what i'm talking about. thanks in advance.

use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;

my $workbook  = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("Example.xls");
my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet();

$worksheet->write_string(0, 4, '$77,777');
$workbook->close();

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In reply to Spreadsheet::WriteExcel cell formatting. by anonymonk

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