#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $file='test_values'; open (my $fh, '+>', $file) or die "ERR $file $!"; my @lines=<$fh>; seek($fh,0,0); # zum Anfang der Datei for my $line (@lines) { chomp($line); my @line_array = split (/\t/, $line); if ($line_array[1] == 45) { print "success\n"; } else { print $fh "$line\n"; } } close ($fh);