On Wednesday, Nov 5, 2003, at 23:12 US/Pacific, Sara wrote: [..]
[..]
foreach my $line(@lines) { chomp $line; my ($name, $id); ($name, $id) = split (/\|/, $line); if ($removeby > &date_to_delete($id)){next;} print DB "$line\n"; } close DB;
that's the operable part of your problem, it is in this foreach loop that the decision is made whether code is "deletable" - hence
if ( $removeby > &date_to_delete($id))
{
print SAVEDB "$line\n";
next;
}and just make sure that you did the appropriate open() for that file handle, etc...
ciao drieux
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