I process a lot of system instrumentation data with perl, to generate reports containing summaries, trends, errors and so on. I'm happy enough scanning columns of numbers, but a lot of my audience favour graphs of some of that data. At present I output .csv files and import them into Excel, but the report structures are getting a bit complex, and I prefer to do the heavy lifting in perl, rather than on the Excel side.

I've rummaged about CPAN looking for a module which gives me hands-on control of the contents of a spreadsheet, but found nothing.

I'd like to be able to create the whole spreadsheet from scratch starting from open/new, lay out its internal structures, then populate it with my data.

Any pointers would be warmly received.

--Dinosaur

In reply to Perl to Excel? by Dinosaur

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