As we already established on the Chatterbox... the square is the appropriate newline character: "\x0A". The problem is that Excel doesn't treat it that way... unless you add a format to those cells, using addformat from the module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, and call the method set_text_wrap() on it.

Now I've had to cheat a little, and check the source for Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple, in order to figure out what would need to be added to your code. Note that though I did test it with Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, I couldn't actually test your final code... I can just hope it works.

First, to create the format, add this somewhere under your new() call: 

  my $fmt = $ss->book->addformat;
  $fmt->set_text_wrap;

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And to actually add the row, change the call to: 
  $ss->write_row(\@odata, $fmt);

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i.e. add $fmt as a second parameter.

In reply to Re: Spradsheet Parsing problem by bart
in thread Spreadsheet Parsing problem by artist

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