Date: 24 Sep 2001 23:54:48 GMT
From: damian@qimr.edu.au (Damian James)
Subject: Re: module for generating Excel spreadsheet?
Message-Id: <slrn9qvhpm.6hn.damian@puma.qimr.edu.au>

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:46:06 -0500, Bing Du said:
>...
>I was told there is a Perl module which can generate file in Microsoft
>Excel spreadsheet format.   Can anybody give me some clue about the name
>of this module, so I can move ahead looking at it further?

The place you look for Perl modules is CPAN - www.cpan.org (but try to
find a mirror near you under 'CPAN sites map'). On the CPAN main page,
there is a heading 'Searching', and under this are several links to sites
that allow you to search for modules. If you tell a search engine to
look for 'Excel', you should get a list of modules relating to Excel.

If you have the CPAN module configured, doing `perl -MCPAN -e shell`,
then asking it 'm /Excel/' will also generate such a list (if you
don't have it configured, then running it with the above incantation
for the first time will walk you through configuring it).

If you are using ActiveState perl, you might want to investigate using
the ppm utility to search for modules. I don't use this, so I can't
advise - I suggest ActiveState's website or the included documentation.

HTH,

Cheers,
Damian
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