I am trying to automate my company's statistic gatherings. I am using Spreadsheet::Excel for this purpose. my code (i just started this a few mins ago) looks like this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;

my $day = (Sunday,Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday)[(
+localtime)[6]];
my $month = (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August,
+ September, October, November, December)[(localtime)[4]];
my $date = (localtime)[3];

my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("test.xls");
my $worksheet = $workbook->addworksheet('3rd Quarter 2002');
my $format = $workbook->addformat();
$format->set_bold();

$worksheet->write(2, 0, 'Date', $format);
$worksheet->write(2, 1, 'Day', $format);
$worksheet->write(2, 2, 'AOL', $format);
$worksheet->write(2, 3, 'MSN', $format);
$worksheet->write(2, 4, 'Katrillion', $format);
$worksheet->write(2, 5, 'CS', $format);
$worksheet->write(2, 6, 'Daily Total', $format);
$worksheet->write(2, 7, 'AOL Weekly', $format);
$worksheet->write(2, 8, 'Mo. Run Total', $format);
$worksheet->write(2, 9, '% change', $format);

$worksheet->write(3, 0, "$month $date");
$worksheet->write(3, 1, $day);

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my problem is those last 2 lines right there. i cant hardcode those values, this script is supposed to write in a different cell each day.. 3, 0 and 3, 1 are today, for example. 4, 0 and 4, 1 are tomorrow. etc help, please.

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