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jdudleyh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm using Spreadsheet::XLSX to read in an Excel 2010 file. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to handle merged cells the way I thought it would (only first cell has the value).

Spreadsheet::XLSX talks about populating some of the classes from Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, but it apparently did not include is_merged()

P.S. I'm trying to avoid XLSX to XLS conversions.

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Re: Reading in merged cells from Excel XLSX
by Tux (Canon) on Jul 31, 2013 at 06:10 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.

      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.