09-18-2012
You can't have both. Either you treat the variable as string, then leading zeroes can be retained, but you can't increment, or you treat it as a numeric variable, allowing for increments, but losing leading zeroes. What you can do is using a formated print as @vidyadhar85 suggested to convert your incremented numeric into a string with leading zeroes.
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excel::template::container::keepleadingzeros
Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros(3pm)
NAME
Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros - Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros
PURPOSE
To set the keep_leading_zeros flag for the surrounding worksheet or any worksheets that might be contained within this node.
NODE NAME
KEEP_LEADING_ZEROS
INHERITANCE
CONTAINER
ATTRIBUTES
None
CHILDREN
None
EFFECTS
Alters how leading zeros are interpreted by Spreadsheet::WriteExcel.
DEPENDENCIES
None
USAGE
<worksheet>
... Cells here will NOT have leading-zeros preserved
<keep_leading_zeros>
... Cells here will have leading-zeros preserved
</keep_leading_zeros>
... Cells here will NOT have leading-zeros preserved
</worksheet>
<keep_leading_zeros>
<worksheet>
... Cells here will have leading-zeros preserved
</worksheet>
<worksheet>
... Cells here will have leading-zeros preserved
</worksheet>
</keep_leading_zeros>
AUTHOR
Rob Kinyon (rob.kinyon@gmail.com)
SEE ALSO
CELL, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
perl v5.14.2 2010-06-17 Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros(3pm)