Re^2: Delete a sheet from Excel

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Re^3: Delete a sheet from Excel by Corion (Patriarch) on May 24, 2009 at 17:59 UTC
Yes: `perl -le "sleep $period_of_time; unlink $excel_file";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Delete a sheet from Excel by Anonymous Monk on May 25, 2009 at 04:45 UTC
could you plz explain more since Am a new fish in this field, and it will be great if provide some instructions on where to place the code. thank you for your replay	[reply]
Re^5: Delete a sheet from Excel by Corion (Patriarch) on May 25, 2009 at 06:09 UTC
To see what my code does, you should learn Perl. The relevant documentation is in perlrun, sleep and unlink. But you need to realize that your task is foolish and easily circumvented, because there is no way to make an Excel file self-destruct that the user couldn't easily prevent, for example by making a copy of the file before opening it.	[reply]