I have this sub that finds exactly what I am looking for but, I am looking to delete what it found. Having problems trying to do that. It is deleting the entire file instead. Any idea on how I should delete just what I found from the values on this peace of code and leave the rest of the file alone?
Here is the code:

ub del{
    my $filename="test.txt";
    my $template_data = "new/".$filename;
    
    undef $/;     # Slurp mode
    open(DATA_IN, "$template_data") || print "Can't open output file1:
+ $template_data\n";    
     #binmode DATA_IN;                  
         $_ = <DATA_IN>;    

    while(/<\?--([^-]*)-([^-]*)-->(.*?)<\/\?--([^-]*)-([^-]*)-->/sg){
                   $a=$1;$b=$2;$c=$3;$d=$4;$e=$5;

                     if ($a eq $location){
                     if($b eq $obj_name)  {
    
                              #Code should be here, and it's where I a
+m having problems...

                           }
                     } 
    $list=$list. "<?--$a-$b-->$c</?--$d-$e-->\n";

    }
    close DATA_IN;
                              open( DATA_OUT, ">test.new" ) or die "$!
+\n";
                              print DATA_OUT "$list\n";
    close DATA_OUT;

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Thanks very much!!!

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