Hi All, I am having trouble with a very simple Perl process. I am basically querying an oracle database and I want to load it into excel. I have been able to use DBIx::Dump and it works. However, I need to be able to use a variety of excel formatting tools. And I think Spreadsheet::Writeexcel is the best module that outputs to excel that allows me do more formatting. Below is the code and the error I am getting. I basically query oracle, fetch the data, load into an array and try to write to excel. For some reason it is doing some kind of compare and it does not like the data types. For example, the date is '25-OCT-08'. The SVP is 'S01'. It seems to be saying that they are not numeric. I know you are busy, but can you please help me with this problem. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Once I can get the data into a spreadsheet, I can play around with the automation and excel formatting. Thanks you!