Hello, I am trying to write a small CGI program to edit one line of a very long aliases file. The one line consists of the name: pageoncall and a pager number in the form of: email1234567890@pager.com/email. The pager number listed within that aliases could be in several other locations within the file. I have written most everything with the exception of this. I cannot figure out how to edit just that one line within the file. Here is the code that i have so far: 
#!/usr/bin/perl


use CGI qw(:standard);
open(FILE, "/test/aliases") or die "Couldn't open $0";
    
        print header('text/html'),
                start_html('Answer the call!'),
                h1('Select your pager number and click submit:'),
                start_form,
                popup_menu(-name=>'pager',
                           -values=>['','1234567890@messaging.sprintpc
+s.com',
                                     '1234567890@archwireless.net',
                                     '0987654321@archwireless.net']),p
+,
                submit,
                end_form;

        if (param() )
        {   
                my $pager       = param('pager');

                if($pager == '') 
                {   
                        print "You selected an invalid number, please 
+try again.";
                }   

                while(<FILE>)
                {   
                        if(/^pageoncall:/)
                        {   

                                print FILE "pageoncall: $pager";
                        }   
                }   
    
        }

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Any help would be gre

In reply to Edit sendmain aliases file. by Anonymous Monk

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