Thanks for the advice. I liked your matching idea - which I thought was promising but unfortunately it didn't seem to work any better than the eq. I have a print out of the variables I use for validation and it shows me that my match isn't working: 
DE: 1002179816
DEDATE: 2009-5-4
OP# 996115
SO# 63170867
0 LINE# 1
1 QTY: 2
2 MODEL: CX-4PDAE-FD
3 DESC: 4G DAE FIELD INSTALL
4 UNIT: EA
5 LIST PRICE: 11800
6 DISCOUNT: 0.000
7 SELL PRICE: 0000
8 REP FLOOR: 0000
9 DM FLOOR: 0000
10 COST: 0000
11 MARGIN: 0.0000
12 MAINTENANCE: 0000
13 COMMENT: Seattle CX3-20 Expansion (30x300 15K)
14 SERIAL# 0
15 BU: IT
16 UPGRADE? 0
17 DEAL# 0

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#14 should be a serial number such as APM1233432445. #16 should be a 1. Looks like there is something a little more complicated a foot. Thanks!

Hagen

In reply to Re^2: SpreadSheet::ParseExcel Failure to Match Question by finhagen
in thread SpreadSheet::ParseExcel Failure to Match Question by finhagen

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