I have a file 'A' which contains n lines of single word strings like

hye
bye
bin
.
.
n
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Now I want to look for these words in some other file 'B' and delete those lines wherever they are found and write the new file as 'C'

Till now I am trying to use this..

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

foreach $file (@ARGV) {

# open a file and assign the filehandle F
open(F, $file) or die("can't open myfile.txt: $!\n");

# read in the whole file into an array of lines
@lines = ();
while(<F>) {
    push(@lines, $_);
}

close(F);   # close the filehandle

foreach (@lines) {
my $string = "@lines";
open(my $infile,"<", file1) or die $!;
open (my $outfile,">>", file2) or die $!;
while (<$infile>)
{
    if ($_ !~/$string/)
    {
       print $outfile $_;
    }
}
close $infile;
close $outfile;
        }
}
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But its giving me error and also not giving results.

Please help !!!

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