Monks, I've been attempting to prep user provide Excel spreadsheets for use as data input sources. I've been manually processing these spreadsheets for some months but now want to programatically address this.

I'll be importing the data as CSV files. I've been able to produce the CSV files from the user provided Excel files, but cannot seem to delete all instances of commmas within them.

I'd expected this to be a simple proceedure using Win32::OLE.

All other aspects of this project are working. I just need to know how to search an Excel spreadsheet and eliminate (or replace with nothing) every instance of a comma in any field value.

Thanks for any guidance you can suggest.
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