Do the pre-processing and the import to Excel need to be separate? I have
used Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and it is really easy to write an Excel
spreadsheet directly from perl.
You could parse the data into a perl structure, loop through it and
layout the Excel file in one script.
Just a thought.
Excel should only see the \t character. It sounds as though the \t is not being
picked up correctly. Have you tried a comma delimiter? It not Perl, but I have had
better luck with comma or semi-colon delimiters with Excel.
Chris D. Garringer
LAN/WAN Manager
Master Certified Netware Engineer
