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16 Feb 2001 (updated 16 Feb 2001 at 20:53 UTC) »
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

Received a report of a subtle bug. The format string '00000' should pad leading zeros to a zip code in Excel but nothing was happening. It turned out that '00000' was matching as a number and evaluating to zero. Nice.

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