Grandfather, this is a real world problem that I have been instructed to use Perl for. I have a large model that will accept data from excel files and my current data is in .txt files. I have rows and columns of data in a .txt file that need to be put into an excel spreadsheet- each item in its own box. In the txt file, there are spaces between the columns of data, and I need a Perl mechanism for reading these spaces and assigning a new cell for each number.