I use this code in a script:
#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use DBI;
use Data::Dumper;
use lib qw(/data/perllib);
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
use Conf;

my $cgi    = CGI->new();
my %params = $cgi->Vars();

print $cgi->header(-type => 'application/vnd.ms-excel',);

# general settings for database-connection
my $USER     = $Conf::USER;
my $PASSWORD = $Conf::PASSWORD;
my $HOST     = $Conf::HOST;
my $DATABASE = $Conf::DATABASE;
my $DBMS     = $Conf::DBMS;
my $driver   = "dbi:$DBMS:$DATABASE:$HOST";

# create connection to database
my $dbh = DBI->connect($driver,$USER,$PASSWORD);

my $statement = "SELECT * FROM table;";

#---------------------------------------------------#
# write EXCEL-file                                  #
#---------------------------------------------------#
  binmode(\*STDOUT);
  my $EXCEL = new Spreadsheet::WriteExcel(\*STDOUT);
  my $sheet = $EXCEL->addworksheet("Features");
  my $state_h = $dbh->prepare($statement);
  $state_h->execute();
  my $col_h = 1;
  $sheet->write(0,0,'Header1');
  shift(@wanted_cols);
  foreach my $th(@wanted_cols){
    $sheet->write(0,$col_h,$th);
    $col_h++;
  }
  my $row = 1;
  while(my @res_array = $state_h->fetchrow_array){
    foreach my $col(0..(scalar(@res_array)-1)){
      $sheet->write($row,$col,$res_array[$col]);
    }
    $row++;
  }
  $EXCEL->close();

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This code creates an Excel-window where you can use the all the Excel-abilities!

In reply to Re: Running external apps by reneeb
in thread Running external apps by Anonymous Monk

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