Re^3: Need help with searching flatfile and updating it.

[Cody Pendant]

Just playing with a minimal case, I think I've grasped what you're trying to do -- are you trying to put the lines back into the LOG file which don't match? Put them back unchanged?

In that case, you probably want to change

 else {
    print "$line";
    }

to

 else {
    print LOG "$line\n";
    }