Bug #41658 for Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-Simple: Feature request for Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-Simple

Dear Tony Bowden, I am using the latest version (1.04) of your Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-Simple module. Recently I've run in to problem with Excel dates being converted differently on different machines. This is one of the known problems described on Spreadsheet-ParseExcel page: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Spreadsheet-ParseExcel/lib/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel.pm#KNOWN_PROBLEMS Basically following code: for my $sheet ( $xls->sheets ){ while ( $sheet->has_data ) { my @data = $sheet->next_row; next unless $data[0] and $data[0] =~ /^\d/; print "$data[0]\n"; } } Returns: 1-1-08 2-1-08 3-1-08 4-1-08 5-1-08 6-1-08 7-1-08 8-1-08 9-1-08 on Linux machine and 2008-01-01 2008-02-01 2008-03-01 2008-04-01 2008-05-01 2008-06-01 2008-07-01 2008-08-01 2008-09-01 on OpenSolaris The dates in Excel file column are in 01/09/2008 format. As a feature request I'd like to suggest to add a version of next_row() method that returns raw Excel row content. For example if you could just add something like: sub next_row_raw { map { $_ ? $_->{Val} : "" } @{$_[0]->{sheet}->{Cells}[$_[0]->{row}++]}; } This way I can get consistent dates, for example, using DateTime-Format-Excel module for converting raw Excel date column, for both machines. Regards, Akbar.