Hi ! I have headache ..to take care of this file...to to remove one record at a time 
10.00|val_time|email01@tech.com|email01
10.20|val_time|email02@cmv.com|email02
10.40|val_time|email03@air.com|email03
11.00|val_time|email04@drama.com|email04
11.20|val_time|email05@living.com|email05
11.40|val_time|email06@testrr.com|email06
12.00|val_time|email07@ball.com|email07
12.20|val_time|email08@lok.com|email08
12.40|val_time|email09@lome.com|email09
13.00|val_time|email10@faarik.com|email10

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I have at flat dtabase file as shown above , each time , i try to delete one record from the file i am erasing the whole file , or getting errors

Is there someone who want to show me a simple method with file locking to remove the record which starts with --10.20 ..or any other bu using the first entry ??

the fields in the above file is (if you need it) 
   $id2|$status|$fromemail|$eform

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thank you !

edited: Fri Jun 13 15:17:58 2003 by jeffa - bogotified email addresses, removed unecessary br tags

In reply to Deleting a record from a flat text file by mikael-g

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