Hello, Please let me know: 1) How to repeatedly save the excel file that I am writing data to, sometimes my code, equipments dont work and all the collected data gets lost. I wanna save the excel file while it is being written. The data in excel is only visible if my .pl file completes execution. If for some reason it gets stuck the data is lost. 2) Also is there a way to open the excel file while data is being sent to the file? (My program controls various equipments and takes 6-7 hours to complete) therefore I wanna see whats being written to the excel file & save repeatedly Please see the folloing code that I am using... " 

   use strict;
               use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
       
               # Create a new Excel workbook called perl.xls
               my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("XYZ.xls");
       system("C:/Perl_Scripts/XYZ.xls");

               # Add some worksheets
               #my $sheet1 = $workbook->add_worksheet();
               my $sheet1 = $workbook->add_worksheet("Summary");
                         .............................................
+...........................................
#this loops for 6-7 hours to collect data
$sheet2->write($i,0,$freqbk);}
$sheet2->write($i,$f+1,$pwr);

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