Comment to the change: I've done some errors that I correct: I'll try to use some easy code: 
my $name = "britney";
my $file = "record.txt";

unless (open (FILE, $file)){
  print "Error: couldn't open file $file: $!";
}
else {
  my $nameFound = 0;

  foreach my $entry(<FILE>){
    if ( /^\Q$name\|/i ){
      $nameFound = $entry; 
      last;
    }
  }
 
  if ($nameFound){
    my($name, $telephone, $email) = split(/\|/, $nameFound);
    # do something with $name, $telephone, $email if you want
  }
  else {
    print "not found\n";
  }
} # else

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I haven't tested this code, but hope that it will work...

Best regards,
perl -e "print a|r,p|d=>b|p=>chr 3**2 .7=>t and t"

In reply to Re: Duplicate data record by strat
in thread Duplicate data record by britney

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