i'm having issues with the line names and values given for the x-axis. i have this code:

sub chart_me {

   my( $row, $name ) = @_;

   my $chart = $workbookout->add_chart( type => 'line', name => $name 
+);

   $chart->set_title( name => $name );

   foreach my $i ( 1 .. 6 ) {
      my $rowi = $row + $i - 1;

      $chart->add_series(
               name        => $header[ $i ],
               catagories  => xl_range_formula( 'Sheet1', 1, 1, 2, $ma
+xcol ),
               values      => xl_range_formula( 'Sheet1', $rowi, $rowi
+, 2, $maxcol ),
      );
   }
}

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which generally works. my issue is that the value for 'name' should come from an array and instead is giving me "Row 2", "Row 3", etc. ie, "Row ".$i also, i can't find a way to get the values for the x-axis to be named as the date they come from (row 1) - i've got data from 2009-01 to 2010-12 and i'm getting 1 .. 24. is there any way to do this?

UPDATE

i did have some off by one issues, but correcting them just means that the data is fitting correctly in the graph - it didn't solve any of my issues. 
      $chart->add_series(
               name        => $header[ $i ],
               catagories  => xl_range_formula( 'Sheet1', 0, 0, 1, $ma
+xcol ),
               values      => xl_range_formula( 'Sheet1', $rowi, $rowi
+, 1, $maxcol ),
      );

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UPDATE #2

i figured out that the 'name' for each line is actually given by the 'name_format' value. i'm now not entirely sure what 'name' is for. i plan to keep playing with it, and see if i can get some better / interesting results to pop out. my current add_series object definition looks like:

      $chart->add_series(
               name           => $header[ $i ],
               name_formula   => '=Sheet1!' . xl_rowcol_to_cell( $rowi
+, 0, 1, 1 ),
               catagories     => xl_range_formula( 'Sheet1', 0, 0, 1, 
+$maxcol ),
               values         => xl_range_formula( 'Sheet1', $rowi, $r
+owi, 1, $maxcol ),
      );

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In reply to Help with Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Chart by ag4ve

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