Hi I have a perl script at the moment which gathers the sar stats for last week and writes them into an excel spreadsheet, i then manually turn these into a chart, I am trying to automate this so the perl script creates the chart aswell, I need to have 1 worksheet with the data and 1 worksheet with the chart, here is what I have so far but its not working: 
#
# Generate Excel Spreadsheet
#

my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("$filename");
my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet('cpu_stats');
my $worksheet2 = $workbook->add_worksheet('chart 1');
my $chart = $workbook->add_chart(type => 'line');

# Write header into worksheet
my @header = ('00:00:00','%usr','%sys','%wio','%idle');
$worksheet->write_row(0,0,\@header);

# Write data into worksheet
$worksheet->write('A2',\@data);

# Add worksheet data to the chart
$chart->add_series(
        categories => '=$worksheet!$B$1:$E$1',
        values     => '=$worksheet!$A$1:$E$1450',
        name       => 'chart1',
);

# Add chart labels
$chart->set_title (name=> '$host Performance Chart for Week Ending $we
+ek_ending');
$chart->set_x_axis (name=> 'Time 24(HR)');
$chart->set_y_axis (name=> 'Percentage');

# Insert chart into worksheet2
$worksheet2->insert_chart ('A1', $chart);

# Close workbook
$workbook->close;

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