I agree with the previous responses from others. Also, davies has a very good point about the indexing of the worksheets. Another example of an indexing issue is the scenario where you're code is expecting the worksheets to be in one order, but a user rearranges the order. That will create some problems and also is the reason that I prefer to specify a worksheet by name.

As Corion pointed out, you're not giving us much information about your problem. Are you getting any errors or are you verifying afterward that the worksheet was not deleted? Also, are you saving changes upon exit? If not, your deletion is not being saved.

Just for fun, I created a blank Excel spreadsheet with multiple worksheets. I was able to use the code below to delete a worksheet.

use strict;

use Win32::OLE;

my $efile = "c:\\test2.xls";
my $excel_error = 0;
my $excel = new Win32::OLE('Excel.Application','Quit') || ($excel_erro
+r = 1);
if ($excel_error) {
  undef $excel;
  die "Unable to open Excel.\n";
}

my $book = $excel->Workbooks->Open($efile) || ($excel_error = 1);
if ($excel_error) {
  undef $book;
  undef $excel;
  die "Unable to open Excel file.\n";
}

$book->Worksheets('Sheet4')->Delete();

$book->Close({SaveChanges => 1});
undef $book;
undef $excel;

[download]

Hopefully this might help you out.

In reply to Re: HowTo Delete Excel Worksheets Using WIN32::OLE by dasgar
in thread HowTo Delete Excel Worksheets Using WIN32::OLE by sachin_p_ganjare

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