remove a line from pending file

ffomnet

I am developing a script that allows people to submit information (ex.baby names) and their information gets put in a pending file (pend.txt). When my we are ready to add the pending names to the actual database (boys.txt or girls.txt), I need the line from the pending database to be deleted.
An example line:

I have no problem writing the line to the permanent database (girls.txt) but I can't figure out how to delete the individual line from the pending file without deleting the entire file. Any help would be appreciated.

kparker

See:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~vinny/

(though this server seems to be down and/or badly loaded down at the moment.) The specific example there is for adding a line at the beginning of a text file, but you're doing almost the same thing: reading in a text file, and then writing back out everything but the line to get rid of.