Re^2: Deletes All Records not just one

[PilotinControl]

Thanks for all of the information and the revised code worked it did delete the entries in the file and when i opened the data.txt file here was the input:

delcarEntry=HASH(0x191920c)
delcarEntry=HASH(0x191920c)
delcarEntry=HASH(0x191920c)

[tobyink]

Try:

print $out_file_handle $line_from_file, "\n";

You're currently printing out the variable $_ which isn't being defined by any of the code you posted (but is being defined somewhere else to point to an object of some kind).