### Create a refrence to @items and insert it into excel $Range->{Value} = [\@items]; #### #!perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my @items= ('A','B','C'); print Dumper(\@items); print Dumper([\@items]); __OUTPUT__ $VAR1 = [ 'A', 'B', 'C' ]; $VAR1 = [ [ 'A', 'B', 'C' ] ];