Your code is pretty close to working.

Problems and changes:

  1. You have two definitions for the contents of your hash file. Will the hash file have "PORNUM: " prefixed on each line?
  2. turn on strictures: use strict; use warnings, they'll catch problems like your use of a possible reserved word 'list'.
  3. some clean-up: let's use the 3 argument form of open, with a lexically scoped filehandle. Get into this habit early.
  4. Let's skip blank lines in the hash file, to make it easier for your users to be correct.
  5. If you're going to modify global special variables, like $/ you'll want to make a local copy with local. And put them in as small of a scope as possible, I've added a brace block around the local to make it clear to future readers of the code that this is the planned scope of the change to $/ 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my %skip;
my $file = shift;
open(my $list, '<', $file) or die;
while(<$list>)
{
  chomp;
  next if /^$/; #skip blank lines in hash file
  #assumes that hash file is just the ID, without umPORN prefix
  $skip{ $_ }=1;
}
close($list);
{
  local($/)="";
  while (<DATA>)
  {
    next if ( m/ PORNUM: \s+ (.*) $ /mx && $skip{ $1 } );
    print "-$_-";
  }
}
__DATA__

random lines of data
PORNUM: PC21x21!2
random lines of data

random lines of data
random lines of data
PORNUM: PP22x43@.5
random lines of data

PORNUM: PP12x60@1
random lines of data
random lines of data

random lines of data
PORNUM: PC12x120/25

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In reply to Re: Deleting paragraphs based on match in a hash by spazm
in thread Deleting paragraphs based on match in a hash by Anonymous Monk

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