Hello PMs: I've been using ParseExcel forever on various forms. Suddenly a form shows up that appears garbled. Closer inspection shows that apparently somehow a NULL char is being inserted between EVERY character in the {Val} fields. For example a field has this: "My value" Perl instead sees: "\c@M\c@y\c@ \c@V\c@a\c@l\c@u\c@e" My first inclination was my client mucked with the form- but I pulled it into Excel, and went in and checked SHOW CONTROL CHARS and the fields are perfect- no control chars. I wrote a cleanup that zaps all the \c@ with a REGEX, but I'd PREFER to have a clean input. The other strangeness is that there is another hash field called _Value (instead of Val), which looks correct all the time. So I considered switching the code over to just use that instead. Insights and wisdom on this matter are most appreciated. MP

In reply to ParseExcel:: wackiness by misterperl

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