Hi, I have made my self a very simple bookmarks page so that I can manage my own links.

When I print each link, there is a link printed under it with a link to a script that will delete the link from a text file, except if the link contains certain characters ( ")" "%" "&" blah blah blah), the link is not deleted...

How can I first tell the script to ignore ALL characters and just delete the line? 

open (FILE, "links.txt") || Error ('open', 'file');
flock (FILE, 2) || Error ('flock', 'file');
@list=<FILE>;
close(FILE);

foreach $list(@list) {
$count++;
if ($list =~ /$link/i) {
$count--;
splice(@list, $count, 1);

open (FILE, ">links.txt") || Error ('open', 'file');
flock (FILE, 2) || Error ('flock', 'file');
print FILE @list;
close(FILE);
}
}

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In reply to Ignore ALL characters and delete? by iamrobj

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