Hi,

There was a great article on Spreadsheet::WriteExcel in this month's TPJ by the author.

This looks like a standard CSV file, so you could have opened it up straight into excel by double-clicking the icon(if it has a csv extension). But hey, Perl is fun and learning new new things is great so why not use it!

The Win32::OLE module is surprisingly easy to use once you have braved it once or twice. I wrote a script the other day that uses OLE to interface with an ASP dll. OLE really opens things up (if you are on a Win32 system {grin})

BTW, there is some documentation with Excel examples in the ActiveState HTML docs.

In reply to Re: Creating Excel Spreadsheet from text data file by $code or die
in thread Creating Excel Spreadsheet from text data file by zzspectrez

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