jasonrogena / jasonrogena/php-excel-reader

Markdown And Text Translations in a spreadsheet

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Description

```
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Cells with markdown values such as ###test which makes an h3 tag when ran
through markdown, the ### is getting removed by the reader.

2.cell containing value
- test
- test1
- test2

gets turned into this
test - test1 -test2
Which breaks markdown
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Please provide any additional information below.
Im expecting there is a way to get exactly the value from the cell, why are
the #'s getting removed?
```

Original issue reported on code.google.com by `jaend...@gmail.com` on 6 Nov 2009 at 8:29

Attachments:
- [test.xls](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/php-excel-reader/issue-52/comment-0/test.xls)

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Research direction

Start by examining how the reader extracts cell values from the attached test.xls, focusing on handling of leading # characters and line breaks. Reproduce the reported Markdown and list examples, then verify that extracted text preserves the cell contents exactly instead of removing or joining characters.

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Assessment

Tech stack
php
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
40/100

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