My code deletes all the records not just the one line I need any solutions? Thanks in advace. 

sub del {
my $output="data.txt";
my ($delroadName, $delroadNumber) = @_;
open(DAT,"$output") || die("Can't open file");
my @data = <DAT>;
close (DAT);
chomp (@data);
open(DAT,">$output") || die("Can't open file");
for (@data) {
my @field = split(/\:/);
next if $field[0] eq $delroadName && $field[0] == $delroadNumber; 
print ("$_\n");        
}
close $output;
}

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data.txt
po:789:auto:home
avr:801:racks:home
with the above code it erases everything in the file not the line needing removed for example if i want to remove avr:801:racks:home the code removes all data

In reply to Deletes All Records not just one by PilotinControl

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