Hey Monks

quick question I have a script that reads in a file and removes a specific line. However what I want it to do is remove all occurances of the specific line except for the first one
Any ideas on how I could do this. I know this is a RDFM question but I am going on vacation today and I need to get it done quick

        open FILE, "<" . $filename or die "Couldn't open file " . $fil
+ename . " for reading";
        while (<FILE>){
                $temp .= $_ unless /$heading_to_print/;
        }
        close FILE;

        open FILE, ">" . $filename or die "Couldn't open file " . $fil
+ename . " for writing";
        print FILE $temp;

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Thanks in advance quys

JohnIrl

Sum day soon I'Il lern how 2 spelI (r tYpe)

In reply to Replacing all but one duplicate lines by johnirl

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