# Spreadsheet-excel-0.3.5.1

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**Created:** [February 8, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spreadsheet-excel-0-3-5-1/84903 "2007-02-08T15:37:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spreadsheet-excel-0-3-5-1/84903/1 "2007-02-08T15:37:24Z")

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Hi all,

This is a highly recommended release for all rubygem-installations of  
Spreadsheet::Excel. It fixes a critical bug reported by Kirk H…  
If you downladed and installed the tarball of 0.3.5 you’re fine:

== What is it?  
Spreadsheet::Excel is a port of John McNamara’s Perl module  
“Spreadsheet::WriteExcel”. It allows you to generate Microsoft Excel  
compatible spreadsheets (in Excel 95 format) on _any_ platform. These  
spreadsheets are viewable with most other popular spreadsheet  
programs, including Gnumeric.  
Spreadsheet::Excel was originally written by Daniel J. Berger and is  
now maintained by Hannes W…

== How to get it?  
gem install spreadsheet-excel

== Changes: 0.3.5.1 - 8-Feb-2007

- Fixed a bug reported by Kirk H. where string-inputs were sliced  
into oblivion by Worksheet#write. This only concerns gem-installations  
of Spreadsheet::Excel. Stupid, stupid maintainers should create gems  
from a clean export, not a working directory containing highly  
experimental code!

apologies to all,  
-H