Execution Problems with UNIX.

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Hi Team,
I created one file like tst.pl, it contains

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;

During execution it's showing error like use: command not found.
Pleast let me suggest how to use this perl menthods in Unix.

Thanks in Advance,
Reards,
Harris

2

Can you paste exact error message that you are receiving?

3

And what is the output of

type perl

?

5

Try chmod 740 tst,pl and then run the file directly, or call like this perl tst.pl use is not a shell command, it is an intruction to include a module to the Perl preprocessor.

6

Hi,
Getting this error message:
Can't locate spreadsheet/parseexcel.pm in @INC
Let me suggest the solution.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,
Harris

7

It's not rocket science. It's telling you that the module can't be found, because you don't have that module. I doubt you had it in Windows either, until you installed it.

The likely thing to do would be to install it.

If your distribution doesn't have a package for it, use cpan as root. It will ask you lots of questions the first time you run it. Once you're past them, 'install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel