print $out_fh grep !/^$user,/, <$in_fh>;

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As far as I can say, this does not work properly. Using the example under the Perl debugger I gave above in this post Re^5: problem with deleting a row, I obtain the following with your syntax: 

  DB<3> $user = "foo";

  DB<10> print join " ", grep !/^$user,/, qw /foo foobar bar barfoo fo
+bar foobaz /;
foo foobar bar barfoo fobar foobaz
  DB<11> print join " ", grep /^$user,/, qw /foo foobar bar barfoo fob
+ar foobaz /;

  DB<12>

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This apparently does not work because $user is interpreted literally as a pattern. As I said in the post mentioned above, you need to force evaluation of $user into the content of the variable (I gave in that post two possible ways of doing that) to get this to work properly.

In reply to Re^4: problem with deleting a row by Laurent_R
in thread problem with deleting a row by brianMonk

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