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in reply to Re: Perl 5.8.? and ParseExcel
in thread Perl 5.8.? and ParseExcel

...Yes, I should have said > 255(unsigned char).

..maybe the module should be using 'U*'.

I think I did see that idea posted, somewhere in all my searching. I will try to change it and see if it works. Any idea why this is occuring with 5.8? Did Unicode not work in 5.6 ?