Hi! i want to delete a certain line from a text file (small one)! I have a form with checkboxes and the line selected(it's only a name) i want to erase it from the text file, but I don't know how to do it!Thank you for your time This what I've tried but it doesn't work at all! 
foreach $key(keys(%FORM)){
open OLD, $file or die "Can't open $file:$!\n";
        open NEW, ">$file.new" or die "Can't open temp file $file.new:
+ $!\n";
        my $found =0;
        while (<OLD>) {
            if ($FORM{$key}==1) {
                $found =1;
                next; 
            }
            print NEW; 
        }}
        if ($found) {
            
         rename ("$file.new", $file) or die "Can't rename new $file: $
+!\n";
        } else {
            print "I didn't find !\n";
        }

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