Excel's hex converter certainly used to be limited to numbers less then 512. I also believe that the OP is using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel or something from that stable rather than Win32::OLE, otherwise I would rush my BigInt xla out & suggest he used that, but I understand that it's a problem importing modules into Excel files using S:WE or its derivatives.

Regards,

John Davies

Hi, thank you, I did not know the Excel conversion function was limited to 512, but I did not see anyway an easy way to use it within the context of a Perl program. Just another good reason to convert the numbers into decimal notation using Perl, before populating the spreadsheet (choroba's suggestion).

Actually, I think that literally putting "0x" at the beginning made it from a number to a string and now Excel leaves it alone.

Yes, but now Excel will ignore it as a number. For example, with cell B4 containing =SUM(B1:B3):

	A	B
1		1
2		0x2
3		3
4	Total:	4

— the total is 4, not 6 as expected. As a rule, numerical data entered into an Excel spreadsheet should be available to be used as numerical data — that’s what a spreadsheet is for, after all! So, prefer choroba’s approach given above.

Hope that helps,

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Actually, this seems to have worked:

$hex_data = "0x".$hex_data;
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That forces an 0x on the values that I print to Excel. That seems to be working.