Hi monks,
I am using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel to create a file with 20,000 lines. The size of the file is quite large - over 100 megabytes.
However, when I open the file and save it as a regular Excel file, the file size goes down to 6 megabytes!
I am using fairly standard features (added some of my code just in case) 

for my $link (@links){
        my @fields = split('\t', $link);
       
        ##Print to xls
        my $col = 0;
        foreach my $token (@fields) {
            $worksheet->write($row, $col, $token);
            $col++;
        }
        $row++;
    }

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Any idea why this happens and how I can make the original file smaller?
Thanks, MrGuy

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In reply to Spreadsheet::WriteExcel large files by mrguy123

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