Hi Monks,

I am having a file named one.txt,the contents are like, 
This file is having data 
It is used for authentication
Authentication number is 9

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When I am running my script I get the new authentication no by @ARGV.If my new authenticaton is not equal to the authentication no found in the one.txt file,the new authentication number should be replaced inthe one.txt file.For this simple work I am using lot of lines.It looks bad for me.Let me know some other professional code to reduce my lines monks.The code is given below, 
perl auth.pl 9

$argact = $ARGV[0];
open input,"one.txt";
open newfile,">output";
while(<input>){
    if($_ =~ /^Authentication\s+number\s+is/){
        @array = split(" ",$_);
        $fileid = (split(" ",$_))[3];
        if($fileid ne $argact){
            $changeflag = 1;
            pop(@array);
            push(@array,$argact);
            $newline = join(" ",@array);            
            print newfile "$newline\n";

        }else{
            print newfile "$_";
        }

    }else{
        print newfile "$_";
    }
}

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Thanks and Regards,
madtoperl.

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