Hello: This script is part of the admin function to delete a user from the database. I'm using a regular file for the database because the largets it'll get is probably 12 members. I've been working with this code for several days and yet still having problems getting it to work! :( The code puts the existing content of the user.dat file into a array, then I split the content into key/pairs of a hash. Then I rewrite the file and print the hash out. Any ideas why its not working? 

open (FILE, "$datafile") or die "Can't read: $!";
while (<FILE>) {

    ($user, $pw) = split "\|";
    $field{$user} = $pw;
foreach (keys %field) {
    print <<EOF; 
$field{$_}<BR>
EOF
}
}


@users = split(/,/,$INPUT{'users'});  #i'm using checkboxes
#foreach $users (@users) {
delete $field{'$users'};
print <<EOF;
$users        #debug
EOF
#}#foreach users




open (FILE, ">$datafile") or die "Can't write: $!";
foreach (keys %field) {
    print FILE "$_\|$field{$_}\n";
    print <<EOF; 
$field{$_}<BR>
EOF
}
close(FILE);
}

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