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in thread Delete reference tree from a file

Thanks for the input... but here the status file contains the reference, and this has to be deleted from the file.

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Re^5: Delete reference tree from a file
by hippo (Archbishop) on Mar 27, 2018 at 14:26 UTC

    The algorithm in full:

    1. Read the data from the file into a hashref.
    2. Delete the entries as desired.
    3. Write the hashref back to the file.
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