I have a code that gets a parameter from a form.
And it should look in the text file if there is any line match at the begging of the line with the param passed from the form, if it does, don't save to the file it should go to
another part of the program. If it does not match write new entry to the end of the file with
new name at the beginning of the file and
the rest of the line with values like
thenewvaluehere*1*1*1*1*1*1*1*1*1*1
Here is the code but it's not working, I need help!!!!
First hte sample test file:
TTMIS*1*1*sandbox*1*1*1*1*1*1*1
Joe Smith*1*1*sandbox*1*1*1*1*1*1*1
Company*1*1*sandbox*1*1*1*1*1*1*1
Travel*1*1*sandbox*1*1*1*1*1*1*1
Comerce*1*1*sandbox*1*1*1*1*1*1*1

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Now the code:
my $ag = param("name");#a name comming from the form
my $filename="template_data_test.txt";
my $template_data = "/cgi-bin\\content\\unsecure\\".$filename;
open(DATA_IN, "$template_data") || print "Can't open output file1: $te
+mplate_data\n";
 while (<DATA_IN>) { 

        $_ =~/^(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?)\
+*(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?)$/;

        my $value1=$1;

        unless($value1 ne $ag) {

            s/$value1/$ag/g; # I might have a problem here cause it ch
+anges  every value of $value1

                $save_list=$save_list.$_;}else{$save_list=$save_list.$
+_;}
                
                }                 
    
        open( DATA_OUT, ">>test2.txt" ) or die "$!\n";
        print DATA_OUT "$save_list";
    
        close DATA_IN;
close DATA_OUT;

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