if ( -f $working_file ) { open WORKINGFILE, "<$working_file" or die $!; while (<WORKINGFILE>) { $line = $_; #@storelist - I am getting this thru a sql statement foreach $temp (@storelist) { chomp $temp; ($x,$store,$distri,$end_date)=split(';',$temp); chomp $store,$distri,$end_date; # print LOG "The store in the lookup is $store and the distributor is $distri\n"; if ( "$store" ne "" && "$end_date" eq "" ) { if ( substr($_,0,4) =~ "$store" ) { open NEWFILE,">>$temp_dir$next_file" or warn $!; print NEWFILE $_; # delete $_ from $working_file ?????????? HOW ???? } } } My question is that if the $store is matched with data in the working file, then I am writing a NEWFILE(this works great), but also, I need to delete the same line from the $working_file. How do I do that? thx

In reply to delete a line from a file by vbynagari

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