Hi swetashah23,

Yes, you can generate graph from Excel using Win32::OLE. Here is a sample code which i got from PM and i don't remember the exact node. You can get more such examples by Super Search.

use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';

my $Excel = Win32::OLE->new("Excel.Application");
$Excel->{Visible} = 1;

my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Add;
my $Sheet = $Book->Worksheets(1);
my $Range = $Sheet->Range("A2:C7");
$Range->{Value} =
    [['Delivered', 'En route', 'To be shipped'],
     [504, 102, 86],
     [670, 150, 174],
     [891, 261, 201],
     [1274, 471, 321],
     [1563, 536, 241]];

my $Chart = $Excel->Charts->Add;
$Chart->{ChartType} = xlAreaStacked;
$Chart->SetSourceData({Source => $Range, PlotBy => xlColumns});
$Chart->{HasTitle} = 1;
$Chart->ChartTitle->{Text} = "Items delivered, en route and to be ship
+ped";
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If you'd like to draw the charts yourself from the data, have a look at GD.

Text::CSV, Text::CSV::Simple or Text::CSV_XS can help extracting the CSV data, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel helps with Excel Spreadsheets.

Here are some random introductory links. Google probably can come up with more.

Thanks a lot. The GD based articles are very easy to understand. Helped me a lot. Sweta.

There are basically two parts to this.

1. Reading data
   • Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel
   • Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
   • Spreadsheet::SimpleExcel
   • Class::CSV
   • DBD::CSV
   • Text::CSV
2. Creating a graph
   • Graph
   • Chart
   • SWF::Chart
   • Chart::Plot
   • SVG::Graph