in reply to cannot create excel file.

I would strongly suggest reading a few books on Perl. You're trying to build a house without plans.

That said, type the following at your shell: 

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
exit

[download]

That should do the trick.

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