Question

I currently have a perl program in Windows that creates and populates an excel file via Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, but I’d like to have that file opened as my program closes. I tried googling for information, but all I found was how to open and read excel files within perl. Would anyone be able to help me?

Answer 1

I recommend this:

`your_file.xls`;

It just executes a system command. Assuming Excel files are set to default open with Excel, this will work (adding the full path to the file may or may not be necessary, depending on your setup).

Other options:

system("your_file.xls");
`C:\\Program Files\\...\\excel.exe your_file.xls`;
system("C:\\Program Files\\...\\excel.exe your_file.xls");