Backticks with `start file.csv` work fine as long as the Tk event loop isn't running. I'd still like to hear if anyone else has the same problem.

Win32::Process works, but I'd have to know the full path to excel.exe.

That's not hard to find.

use File::Spec;

sub find_in_path {
    my $prog = shift;
    my $fmm;
    for my $d (File::Spec->path()) {
        $fnm = File::Spec->catfile($d,$prog);
        last if -x fnm;
        $fnm = undef;
    }
    return $fnm;
}

my $excel = find_in_path('excel.exe');
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dragonchild

Thanks, but that's assuming excel.exe is in your path. It's typically not, rather it's typically in some place like c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\. That's the case with most Windows packages that you'd install.

If that's a problem for you, then use system or fork/exec.

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