What do you want to do exactly? Because there are more possibilities to do it:

If it it a Win32-System, you can do so with Win32::ODBC or DBI and DBD::ODBC very easily. Just access Excel like a ODBC-Database, and use the single sheets like tables. Just take care that the Sheetname plus a $ at the end is the tablename.

Or you could use Win32::OLE (have a look at the activestate perl-WinFaq). This has got more overhead, but if you want to format cells or build and execute makros, this might be the only way how it works.

There are also Modules like Excel::Spreadsheet or the like, but I haven't tried them yet.

Best regards,
perl -le "s==*F=e=>y~\*martinF~stronat~=>s~[^\w]~~g=>chop,print"

In reply to Re: export a table to excel by strat
in thread export a table to excel by beginner_perl

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