#!/usr/bin/perl -w $ffdb=("ffdb.dat"); open(FILE, "$ffdb"); @ffdbdata=; close FILE; print "Enter ID \n"; $ID = ; chomp($ID); if ($ID eq "") { print "Cant be empty!\n"; } open(FILE, ">$ffdb"); foreach $line (@ffdbdata) { $line=~ s/\n//g; @column=split /\|/, "$line"; if ($column[0] eq $ID) { if ($column[1] eq IN) { print FILE "$column[0]|OUT\n"; } else { print FILE "$column[0]|IN\n"; } } else { print FILE "$line\n"; } } close FILE; exit(0);