First I must say I agree with NetWallah about the importance of posting the errormessage AND the offending linenumber.

So now I'm guessing that the line 

 ### Create a refrence to @items and insert it into excel
 $Range->{Value} = [\@items];

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could be part of your troubles.

#!perl -w
use strict;

use Data::Dumper;

my @items= ('A','B','C');

print Dumper(\@items);
print Dumper([\@items]);
__OUTPUT__
$VAR1 = [
          'A',
          'B',
          'C'
        ];
$VAR1 = [
          [
            'A',
            'B',
            'C'
          ]
        ];

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HTH

In reply to Re: OLE - updating a chart in an excel spreadsheet by guha
in thread OLE - updating a chart in an excel spreadsheet by Rom399

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