Perl Program to load set of columns of table into excel

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I need to load a set of columns of a table (Oracle) into excel using perl. Below is the main part of the program. ############################

my $file_name="/source_file/source_file.txt";
print LOG "Opening the file \n";
open(SRC_FILE,">$file_name")|| die "Can't open $file_name\n";
print SRC_FILE "USER_ID,USER_NAME,PRIMARY_GROUP,EMAIL \n";

$sql = "SELECT user_id,user_name,primary_group,email from users";

my $sth=$db->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute
|| die "Can't execute the query\n";

while (@row =$sth->fetchrow_array)
{
print SRC_FILE "$$row[0][0]" \n";
}
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##################################### I need to print each column of table in to different columns of the excel.I have to modify this program to get a below output.

USER_ID    USER_NAME PRIMARY_GROUP     EMAIL 
abcd     arun      app_dev     arun@abc.com
pvad    rani      consultant     rani@abc.com
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I have searched the questions of this kind in this site but all in vain. please help me out.

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Re: Perl Program to load set of columns of table into excel by code-ninja (Scribe) on Aug 26, 2013 at 09:40 UTC
please use <code> tags around your code. Also, this question has been repeatedly asked on Perl Monks, search around and you'll find the answer you seek. :)	[reply]
Re: Perl Program to load set of columns of table into excel by soonix (Chancellor) on Aug 27, 2013 at 09:02 UTC
Seconding code-ninja's comment, but perhaps this brings a little more help :-) If it is not absolutely necessary to create native Excel files, Excel will happily accept CSV files. These are much easier to handle (plaintext, makes debugging much easier). As you seem to use DBI, perhaps DBD::CSV might come to your rescue, otherwise you could use e.g. Text::CSV.	[reply]