my code below works fine updating the line in a file however it deletes all other records...not sure why? Thanks in advance for the solution to the code below. 

sub editgenord {
print colored ("| ORIGINAL DATE: |\n\n",'green');
my $origgenordDate = <STDIN>;
chomp $origgenordDate;
print colored ("| REVISED DATE: |\n\n",'green');
my $revgenordDate = <STDIN>;
chomp $revgenordDate;

my $file = "generalorderdata.txt";       

local $^I = ".bak";
local @ARGV = ($file);
while (<>) {
chomp;
my ($origDate,$gnOrd,$revDate) = split(/\:/);
if ($origDate eq $origgenordDate) {
print "$origDate:$gnOrd:$revgenordDate\n";
}
}
unlink("$file.bak");

close $file;          

print colored ("GENERAL ORDER UPDATED SUCCESSFULLY!!\n",'green');

sleep 3;
genord();
} # END UPDATE GENERAL ORDER

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In reply to Update works for line...deletes other records by PilotinControl

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