Hi everyone, Im newbie on perl and this site, i like it very much, most of all the top messages jejee like "Keep It Simple, Stupid" jajaja it kills me, ok, question. How can i delete the first 5 lines from a drive file, im doing this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use Tie::File;

my @parsedfiles;
my $n_files;

if (-e "last_processed.log") {
 tie @parsedfiles, 'Tie::File', "last_processed.log";
 n_files = @parsedfiles;

 if($n_files>=10) {
   for(my $i=0; $i<5; $i++) {
     delete $parsedfiles[$i];
   }
 }
 untie @parsedfiles;

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But!!! it just remove the content of the lines and my file looks like: 




6chale
7chale
8chale
9chale
10chale
11chale
12chale

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Help please!!!! Thanks in advanced

In reply to Remove Lines from file by jreyesb

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