I have a problem using WriteExcel. I add a format for currency and write the data using it correctly (?)

my %format_kr = ( num_format => "# ##0 kr" );
...
my $format_kr = $excel->add_format(%format_kr);
...
$sheet->write($i,2,$data[$i],$format_kr);

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but for some reason when I open the excel document the formatted cells end up like this

12345 678 kr

And when I check the number format set in Excel it is 

#\ ##0 kr

There's only a preceding backslash in front of the first blank between the #'s, not in front of the blank before 'kr'.

I'm confused... and not even sure this is WriteExcel's fault.

Edit: Trying to find some way to work around here, I found the num_format_enc property of a format. The result was the same though.

use Unicode::String;
Unicode::String->stringify_as('utf16');
my $format_latin_str = "# ##0 kr";
my $format_utf_str = Unicode::String::latin1( $format_latin_str );
my %format_kr = ( 'num_format' => $format_utf_str, 'num_format_enc' =>
+ 1 );

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/ Stormr

In reply to Problem with whitespace in num_format using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel by Stormr

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