Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
at the office I have a Perl CGI script that parses CSV type data and generates an excel spreadsheet. when I use the IE browser everything works ok : the browser prompts me to open or save the generated data and when I click on "open" excel starts up and properly displays the data.
however when the same function is performed using chrome, it only allows me to save the file and when I attempt to run excel on the saved file I get an error message about "bad format of data".
I have used several different Perl modules : (1) Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and (2) Excel::Writer::XLSX and the result is the same in both cases, IE is ok and chrome fails.
Is there a Perl module to generate an older style "xls" file that my Perl CGI script could use ?
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