Hello Allison, To write an excel file you will need John McNamara's module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. You can read on the CPAN documentation at
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Spreadsheet-WriteExcel To read an excel file and write output as textfile you will need Kawai Takanori's module Spread::ParseExcel. You can read on the CPAN documentation at http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Spreadsheet-ParseExcel The two modules depend on other perl modules. These are: ParseRecDescent IO-Stringy OLE-Storage_Lite Text-Balanced If you execute your script using the excel modules and find error such as ParseRecDescent.pm not found, then visit CPAN and download it. In any case, there is ample documentation and examples on how to use the modules. Good luck. Alfred Vahau Project Breeze Coordinator School of Natural and Physical Sciences University of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
