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Spreadsheet::XLSX is kinda unmaintained. Sadly, so is the alternative Spreadsheet::ReadSXC. Though imho the alternative shows better conformance to Spreadsheet::ParseExcel than the first one does.

The author of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel has plans to write Spreadsheet-ParseExcelXML for XLSX, but that is delayed because of Spreadsheet-WriteExcelXML iirc.

You could try to draw the author's attention by commenting on this ticket, preferably with a patch to make the module do what you want conforming to the behavior in Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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Re^2: Reading in merged cells from Excel XLSX
by runrig (Abbot) on Jul 31, 2013 at 16:54 UTC
    The author of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel has plans to write Spreadsheet-ParseExcelXML for XLSX, but that is delayed because of Spreadsheet-WriteExcelXML iirc.

    The write excel library is Excel-Writer-XLSX, but I don't know if that has anything to do w/the slowness of the reader development. The reader Excel::Reader::XLSX is under development, and is somewhat usable, though in an alpha state. And I don't know how it handles merged cells.

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Re^2: Reading in merged cells from Excel XLSX
by jdudleyh (Acolyte) on Jul 31, 2013 at 22:43 UTC

    Thanks H.Merijn. I'll add a comment on that bug report as soon as I figure out how to comment on that bug report. :)

    The patch shouldn't be too hard to write either.

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