in reply to Re^4: Search and delete
in thread Search and delete

I am pretty sure you are trying to delete 3 lines, in which you are only reading one line at a time.

I could handle this by putting in a counter:
my $counter = 0; if ( $_ =~ /unassigned/ ) { $_ =~ s/.*\n//gi; #delete unassigned line $counter++; #count will be 1 and will be caught by next if stat +ement } if ( $counter = 1 ) { $_ =~ s/.*\n//gi; #delete next line $counter++; #count will be 2 and will be caught by next if stat +ement } if ( $counter = 2 ) { s/.*\n//gi; #delete the 2nd line after unassigned $counter = 0; #make count to 0 until $_ is something you are lo +oking for }
I dont know how good this will work for your particular problem, but it could give you another way to think about it :)

EDIT: I did not read the rest of the comments, seems there was a better answer already given.