Hi, I am a newbie to perl and here goes my need, i have a set of text files(with extension as .txt) i have to grep for a particular pattern from them and write them into an excel sheet. Eg. file1.txt has a text REQXXXX (XXXX - any 4 digit number) file2.txt has a text REQXXXX (XXXX - any 4 digit number) now i want an excel sheet to be generated as below column 1. coulmn2 file1.txt REQXXXX file2.txt REQXXXX if the file1.txt doesnt have the number, the respective cell of the excel sheet should be left blank. I came to know that we need to have some packages for writing into excel, please help me to download the package and instal the same so that i can implement the above requirement. vijey

In reply to writing into a excel sheet using perl by s_vijey

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