I am creating a program that keeps a record of people and their sports in a .txt file and I need to make an option to remove a player. When a new player is created, their first name, last name, sport, rank and 2 line breakers are written to the text file. I need code that asks for their first name and last name and then will delete the 5 lines of their information from the text file. 

$first_name = <STDIN>;
chomp $first_name;

$last_name = <STDIN>;
chomp $last_name;

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It has to search the file for a line with both of those names and then delete that line, and the one above it and 3 below it. Thanks & good luck.

In reply to Delete specific lines from txt file. by FredFredFred

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