At 22:42 -0700 1/5/09, Greg Reyna wrote:

>I'm trying to write a script that will open an ascii file, search for
>a word, delete the entire line that word is on, then search again to
>EOF, and save.

A UNIX Filter such as this ought to do the trick:

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $word = "something";
while (<>) { /$word/ or print }


JD


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