I am new to PERL/cgi and am trying to find a line in a data file that matches $email and then replace the 'nodata' part of the string that matches with $secondary. My code below does all of that, but isn't writing it to the file. I don't want duplicates, I just want what is in the file to be updated. Can you help me? 
sub addSecondary($$)
{
        my ($email, $secondary) = @_;

        open (MYFILE, 'registration.dat');
        while (<MYFILE>)
        {
                chomp;
                my $line = $_;
                if($line =~ /$email/)
                {
                        $line =~ s/nodata/$secondary/gi;
                }
        }
        close (MYFILE);
}

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In reply to Appending to a file. by xavierarmadillo

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