I have a file of CSV in the format:

ID PIN

1111 1234

I need to remove a list of numbers that I have in another format in the same format.

My original thought was to read everything into an array and remove it that way, the problem I am running into is when I read it in it separates the ID and pin into different entries in the array: ie 

@originalList = <LISTFILE>

$originalList[0] = "ID"
$originalList[1] = "PIN"

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so then I thought if I could just parse through the file then I could pull out the items that don't match: 

open (ORGLIST, "<", $ARGV[1]);
open (BEEPON, ">>", "beep_on.list");
open (BEEPOFF, ">>", "beep_off.list");
my $i = 0;
foreach my $line (<ORGLIST>){
    my $notLine = 0;
    open (DELLIST, "<", $ARGV[0]);
    foreach my $otherLine (<DELLIST>){
        if ($line eq $otherLine){
            $notLine++;
            last;
        }
    }
    close (DELLIST);
    if ($notLine > 0){
        print BEEPON $line;
        $i++;
    }
    elsif ($notLine == 0){
        print $line;
        print BEEPOFF $line;
    }
    
}
close (BEEPON);
close (BEEPOFF);

print "Items removed $i \n";
close (DELLIST);

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as you can see this code is defunct too...

This makes a list for every iteration of the file line.

any suggestions please?

I'm not looking for someone to write the code for me, I just need someone to point me in the right direction.

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