Hi to all, thanks for your answers. While you have been answering I was on the search for a solution by myself and I have found one. The major part for me is the change should be saved imedeatly to the file - after deleteing the line, because I need to have the actual status saved in the file even if the script crashes. And I did not want to ope/close/reoepn the file while each loop. I have found also Tie::File and with a litle trick it does exactly what I want.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Tie::File;

tie my @list, 'Tie::File', $list or die "Can't open list of files as array\n";

my $records = @list;
print"## Start: Found $records records in $list ##\n";

my ($count, $counter);

for ($count = 0; $count < $records; $count++ ) {
#The important part ist to keep [0] here because it uses always the first line
my $file = $list[0];
#do some processing with the file from record. . .
#delete line
shift(@list) or die "Can't delete record $file in $list\n";
}
Regards Alex

In reply to Re^2: How to delete the line I have just read? by ademmler
in thread How to delete the line I have just read? by ademmler

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