How big is the file you need to work with? Can you read the whole thing into memory or could it possibly get too big to do that. Provided the file won't grow too large, you can do something like: 


my $stdInfo="/home/stdInfo";
 
print " Enter the number of student that you want to delete\n";
my $std = <STDIN>;
#Don't forget to get rid of the newline character from the input
chomp $std;
 
#Open the file and read it in:
open(FILE, "$stdInfo") || die "couldn't open $stdInfo for reading";
#Each line is stored in an array
my @in=<FILE>;
close(FILE);

#Now open the same file again for output
open (FILE, ">$stdInfo") ||die "couldn't open $stdInfo for writing";

#Now print out everything except what you want to delete:
for (@in)
{
        print FILE unless ( $_ =~ /^$std/ );
}
close(FILE);

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The code is simple and could definitely use a ton of error-checking stuff to make sure the user is input correct input. But I'll leave that up to you.

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In reply to Re: updating Input file by pzbagel
in thread updating Input file by Anonymous Monk

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