From aab9f0d91af4b73b7fb3042534dfe5c072682850 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kkr-Christopher <91697610+kkr-Christopher@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 19:00:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix '=' in Google Sheets

---
 xlsxwriter.class.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xlsxwriter.class.php b/xlsxwriter.class.php
index e4ebdc5eb..450ec4702 100644
--- a/xlsxwriter.class.php
+++ b/xlsxwriter.class.php
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ protected function writeCell(XLSXWriter_BuffererWriter &$file, $row_number, $col
 		if (!is_scalar($value) || $value==='') { //objects, array, empty
 			$file->write('<c r="'.$cell_name.'" s="'.$cell_style_idx.'"/>');
 		} elseif (is_string($value) && $value[0]=='='){
-			$file->write('<c r="'.$cell_name.'" s="'.$cell_style_idx.'" t="s"><f>'.self::xmlspecialchars($value).'</f></c>');
+			$file->write('<c r="'.$cell_name.'" s="'.$cell_style_idx.'" t="s"><f>'.self::xmlspecialchars(ltrim($value, '=')).'</f></c>');
 		} elseif ($num_format_type=='n_date') {
 			$file->write('<c r="'.$cell_name.'" s="'.$cell_style_idx.'" t="n"><v>'.intval(self::convert_date_time($value)).'</v></c>');
 		} elseif ($num_format_type=='n_datetime') {