Hi
I am using a flat file (e.g info.txt) to retrieve data. i want to get the input from a text field of form (for e.g say name) .i want to delete and modify a particular record by using the name from form input. i have used tab for seperating the fields of the record in the text file. Can anyone help me how to do that? I have given the code below. It is deleting all the records instead of deleting a particular record.

Thanks in Advance
Keshav 


#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
print"content-type:text/html\n\n";
my $action = new CGI;
my $username = $action->param('username');
#my $file = "members.txt";
my $file = "users.txt";
my $old = $file;
$found = undef;
open(OLD, $file) or die "The file $file could not be found\n";
@data = <OLD>;
close (OLD);
 foreach $row(@data){
chomp($row);
#my @currentrow = ();
@currentrow = split(/\t/, $row);
if ($username eq $currentrow[0]){
$found = 1;
print $currentrow;
}
}
if (defined($found))
{
  push(@currentrow, $currentrow);
  open(NEW, ">users.txt") || die "no!\n";  
 foreach $n ( 0 .. $#currentrow ) {   
# loop to print array of lines to new file
  print NEW $currentrow[$n], "\n";
}
  close(NEW);
  exit;
 } 
else {
        print "Sorry. You don't have this member";
        exit;
    }

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