Thanks for all the replies! Yes, can't beat fruity loops, ha, ha! Ron, I think that's what I'm trying to achieve. Essentially all I'm trying to do is repeat the while loop script for as many times as I have fruit_types. As you've probably guessed from my "fruity loops", primary school example, :) I just don't have the scripting knowledge of Perl to execute this. I've been modifying the script with a bash loop, with something along the lines of... 

occurrence=( $(wc -l fruit_types) )

for i in `seq 1 $occurrence`
blah, blah, blah.

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I know there must be an easier and less primitive way of doing this like you've suggested but could someone throw an example my way. As said I need some help with the scripting.

In reply to Re^3: Using variable files to add data into excel spreadsheet by Anonymous Monk
in thread Using variable files to add data into excel spreadsheet by rickyboy

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