Ok I tried your code, how come it only wrote 5 elements instead of 10 elements from the file? I do not understand what the "$_+2" means. Thanks! Below is the code I am testing with: 
$AZ_len = 10;
&update_google ($az_state, $AZ_len);


sub update_google {
    my($infile, $col_length) = @_;
    #Open files to read from
    open GOOG, "<", $infile or die $!; 
    $count = 6;
    while (<GOOG>) {
        @test1 = split(/ /);
        my @aoh = map {
            {row => $count, col => $_+2, input_value => $test1[$_]} }
        0 .. 4;
        $googlesheet->batchupdate_cell(@aoh);    
    $count++;    
    }
    close(GOOG);
}

# $infile looks like this 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 4 6 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 5 4 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

#Google spreadsheet only prints this
0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0

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In reply to Re^2: Need to find a more efficient way to write if/elsif in loop by AllPaoTeam
in thread Need to find a more efficient way to write if/elsif in loop by AllPaoTeam

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