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Maintainer(s)' notes

If you are reporting a bug in Spreadsheet::ParseExcel here are some pointers

1) State the issues as clearly and as concisely as possible. A simple program or Excel test file (see below) will often explain the issue better than a lot of text.

2) Provide information on your system, version of perl and module versions. The following program will generate everything that is required. Put this information in your bug report.

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    print "\n    Perl version   : $]";
    print "\n    OS name        : $^O";
    print "\n    Module versions: (not all are required)\n";

    my @modules = qw(
                      Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
                      Scalar::Util
                      Unicode::Map
                      Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
                      Parse::RecDescent
                      File::Temp
                      OLE::Storage_Lite
                      IO::Stringy
                    );

    for my $module (@modules) {
        my $version;
        eval "require $module";

        if (not $@) {
            $version = $module->VERSION;
            $version = '(unknown)' if not defined $version;
        }
        else {
            $version = '(not installed)';
        }

        printf "%21s%-24s\t%s\n", "", $module, $version;
    }

    __END__

3) Upgrade to the latest version of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel (or at least test on a system with an upgraded version). The issue you are reporting may already have been fixed.

4) Create a small example program that demonstrates your problem. The program should be as small as possible. A few lines of codes are worth tens of lines of text when trying to describe a bug.

5) Supply an Excel file that demonstrates the problem. This is very important. If the file is big, or contains confidential information, try to reduce it down to the smallest Excel file that represents the issue. If you don't wish to post a file here then send it to me directly: jmcnamara@cpan.org

6) Say if the test file was created by Excel, OpenOffice, Gnumeric or something else. Say which version of that application you used.

7) If you are submitting a patch you should check with the maintainer whether the issue has already been patched or if a fix is in the works. Patches should be accompanied by test cases.

Asking a question

If you would like to ask a more general question there is the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Google Group.

Report information
The Basics
Id: 40061
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Spreadsheet-ParseExcel

People
Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: motoplux [...] gmail.com
Cc:
AdminCc:

Bug Information
Severity: Normal
Broken in:
  • 0.32
  • 0.33
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: wrong parsed value for euro symbol
While trying to parse cells with the euro symbol € I get a wrong parsed value like € instead Tested on: Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.33 and Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.32 Perl version: v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi Operating system: CentOS release 5.2 (Final) Linux 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed Sep 24 20:07:49 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
On Wed Oct 15 05:46:05 2008, http://motoplux.myopenid.com/ wrote: Show quoted text
> While trying to parse cells with the euro symbol € I get a wrong parsed > value like € instead
Hi, The Euro symbol isn't stored in Excel as a single character. It is stored as a UTF-16 character and is returned by Spreadsheet::ParseExcel as a Perl utf8 character. This is what you are seeing and in terms of the way Spreadsheet::ParseExcel handles Unicode it is the correct behaviour. How you should handle the utf8 string from there depends on what you want to do with it. John. --
Hi, I'm going to close this issue. If you still think it is a bug you can open it again or else discuss it on the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/spreadsheet-parseexcel John. --