+1 add code tags your code should look like 
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 distributo
+r 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  ????
         }
       }
     }

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However you should have noticed on the preview page that it didn't, weren't you curious?

You need to write the lines you wish to keep to a temporary file and rename it on completion or create an array tied to the file.

print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."

In reply to Re: delete a line from a file by Utilitarian
in thread delete a line from a file by vbynagari

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