Hi Monks!
I am trying to read some file(s), get its size, and if the file(s) are larger than what I've declared in the variable $last_maxsize, delete over sized file content until it reaches the size specified. For some reason the code is deleting all the lines in the file(s) but the first line, the number in the $last_maxsize variable is just been ignored, can anyone help me on that?
Here is the piece of code doing that:

my $last_maxsize = 170000;

#I need to delete original files here...
    open my $last_in, '<', "$path_only/$file_name" or die $!;    
    {
      local $/ = \$last_maxsize;
      while ( my $new_record = <$last_in> ) {      
        next if -s $new_record > $last_maxsize;
        open my $last_out, '>', "$path_only/$file_name"       or die $
+!; #It should create the file(s) with a new size       
        print $last_out $new_record;
        close $last_out or die $!;                  
      }
     close $last_in;
    }

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Thanks a lot!

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