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Please help me as I am stumped. I wrote the following code to open up a file, delete lines in the file that start with the words PABPT.ROW and append to the end of the file.
open(SNMPFILE,"+< $local_dir\/cpsnmpagent.cfg");
    @ARRAY = <SNMPFILE>;
    foreach $element (@ARRAY) {
        if ($element=~/^PABPT.ROW/) {
            print "$element matches\n";
            $element =~ s/$element//;
            print "element is now $element\n";
        }
    }
    seek(SNMPFILE,0,0);
    print SNMPFILE @ARRAY;
    truncate(SNMPFILE,tell(SNMPFILE));
    print SNMPFILE "$conf_chg0\n";
    close(SNMPFILE);

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The problem is that it finds the lines in question but it only removes the second line found and not the first. What is wrong with my code? Here is the output: 
bash-2.03# PABPT.ROW.0= 1000 marks_pabs * 4211 pabd 1 1 5 password
 matches
element is now PABPT.ROW.0= 1000 marks_pabs * 4211 pabd 1 1 5 password

PABPT.ROW.0= 34567 pabs_works 10.41.0.70 4211 pabd 1 1 5 password
 matches
element is now

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Thanks in advance

In reply to bewildering array element problem by Anonymous Monk

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