Your example code and error message don't seem to match. If parse_table was given "TestCase " the error should have said ERROR: No Cell found with <TestCase >....

Regardless, parse_table calls the internal function _search_var, passing your search term. Neither routine modifies the search term in any way. It then checks every cell for a match like this:

if ( defined $cell ) {
  my $val =  $cell->value;
  if ($val =~ /\s+$/ ) { $val =~ s/\s+//g; }
  if ( $val eq "$var") { return "$row $col"; }
}

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Note that if the cell has trailing white space then all white space is stripped from $val before comparing with your search term in $var. It can never find "TestCase ".

In reply to Re: Unable to use Spreadsheet::ExcelHashtable module by keszler
in thread Unable to use Spreadsheet::ExcelHashtable module by Anonymous Monk

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