Hello
I'm having trouble coming up with code to replace one unique string in a multi-line text file. The goal: I have a text file of orders separated by lines. When I run &ReplaceStatus I want the status of the order $order in this text file to change from "Pending" to "Delivered". Here's what I have so far:

sub ReplaceStatus {

$ORDERS="../../../orders.txt";

$order = $in{'order'};
$new_order_status = "Delivered";

open (FILE, "<$ORDERS");
open (WRBK, ">>$ORDERS");

while (<FILE>) {
chomp;
my @vals = split "\t";
$status = $vals19;

if ($vals[0] == "$order") {
$vals19 = $new_order_status;
print WRBK $vals19;
last;

}

close(WRBK);

}
}

The file its calling is a tab delimited text where each line is an individual order. The last tab is the "status" string which I need to change. Right now all this code is doing is adding a new line at the bottom of the text file with the string "Delivered"

Thanks in advance!

In reply to replacing string in multi-line text file by jerryran

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