Hi there Monks!

I am using Spreadsheet::XLSX module to read the data from a .xlsx(spreadsheet) file.

Source file value : 10/23/2013
The actual data once parsed : 41570 ( The values returned from the cell while reading the data from that cell).

It seems to be the number of days since 12/30/1899? Is this a bug with the module?
Is there a way to solve this issue like converting or parsing 41570 days since 12/30/1899 to get 10/23/2013 after I read the date data from the .xlsx file?
Here is the code I am using:

 sub xlsx_get {

   my $file_to_parse = shift;

   my @values;
     
   my $excel = Spreadsheet::XLSX -> new ($file_to_parse) or die "could
+ not read the excel: $@$!";

   foreach my $sheet (@{$excel -> {Worksheet}}) {
        
     $sheet -> {MaxRow} ||= $sheet -> {MinRow};

     # Skip worksheet if it doesn't contain data.
     next if $sheet -> {MinRow} > $sheet -> {MaxRow};
     my $c=0;

     foreach my $row ($sheet -> {MinRow} .. $sheet -> {MaxRow}) {
       $c++;
       
       $sheet -> {MaxCol} ||= $sheet -> {MinCol};

       my $name_xlsx    = $sheet->{Cells}[$row][0]->{Val};
       my $date_xlsx = $sheet->{Cells}[$row][1]->{Val};

       # Skip if it doesn't contain data.
       next unless $name_xlsx;   

       # log for test date format
       warn $date_xlsx;
            
       push @values, [ $name_xlsx, $date_xlsx ];
            
     }
 
   }

  return \@values;

} # end sub xlsx_get

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Spreadsheet::XLSX date format problem by Anonymous Monk

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