Re: How do I delete/modify one line from test file ?

[draco_iii]

open(FILEHANDLE,"+< $FILENAME) or die print $!;
while(<FILEHANDLE>){
     if ($_ ne 'b|b|b|b|b|b'){
         push(@outtext,$_);
         }

Do what you want from here.  Of course it always a 
good idea to lock the file if you are on a UNIX 
system.

[Anonymous Monk]

I can't get that to work how. Could you post a more complete answer. I am feeding the push command the line that I want removed but it doesn't do anything. What am I doing wrong?

[arturo]

well, if you're pushing the line you don't want onto the array, it's going to end up in the array. It might help to think of another way of doing the same thing:

push @array, $line unless $line eq 'b|b';

Read the fine manual! => perldoc -f push

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