Hello Travis, I'd suggest you take a look at the Tie:File module, which lets you treat files as arrays. This would make it easy for you to change the data in your file, assuming the data were able to be dealt with in this way. Of course, I'm only guessing here, because I haven't seen your data. Here's a simple example of using Tie::File:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Tie::File;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $filename = "dbfile.txt";
tie my @array, 'Tie::File', $filename or die "can't open $filename: $!
+";

$array[13] = 'blah';            # line 13 of the file is now 'blah'
print $array[42];               # display line 42 of the file

__END__
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