hi experts I want to delete a line in a file depending on the content of line, if my file is like this
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbb ccccccc ddddddddd eeeeeee eeeeee perl ffffffff gggggggg hhhhhhhhhh Here i want to remove the 4th line because it contains word "perl" !! ( of course i like perl) i try ed this open FD , "< /home/file1 " or die " Can't open file1 file : $!"; open FD2 , "> /home/file2 " or die " Can't open file2 file : $!"; while(<FD>) { print FD2 $_ unless ($_=~/perl/); } close FD; close FD2; "and move file2 to file1" but i don't want to use 2 file , can i do this within the original file -- Thanks Chandu.B.S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>