I want to create a new spreadsheet each time due to changing data requirements. There will be an existing spreadsheet with the same name so my thought was to delete the exisiting spreadhseet and start fresh but this is not working. Unless I physically remove the existing file first the same data keeps showing up. I tried renameing the "trend report" directory to "trend_report" but this didn't work also. Can you help me get past this hurrled so I can started? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
 
$file = "/web/htdocs/osdsun80.ameritech.com/eadas/West/trend report/We
+st.xls";
 
if (-r "$file")
{
    unlink("$file") or die "Can't Unlink $file: $!";
}
 
# Create a new workbook and add a worksheet
my $workbook  = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("$file");
my $worksheet = $workbook->addworksheet("West Trend");

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In reply to New Spreadsheet by tc1364

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