Perl Monks, I have only recently made the journey to Tibet and am new to this. My goal is to read numerical data from a .txt file into an excel workbook. When there are spaces in the .txt, the next value should go into the next data box on the workbook. I. e. 123 456 789 987 654 321: 123, 456, and 789 would be put in separate boxes horizontally- 987, 654, and 321 would be put in the next row horizontally. 

my $excel_input_file= 'c:\begperl\data.new.txt';
my $workbook = Excel::Writer::XLSX->new('c:\begperl\data.xlsx');
my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet();
my $worksheet2 = $workbook->add_worksheet();

open( my $in2, '<', $excel_input_file) or die "Can't open $excel_input
+_file: $!";
open (my $out2, '>', $workbook) or die "Could not open file '$workbook
+' $!";

#put stuff that reads txt file numerical data into excel
# each value separated by space goes in next column
#each new line from txt file goes in next row



#close up shop
close $in;
close $out;

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