Delete lines from text file from selection list

My goal is to read each line of a text file, have a selection list appear asking which lines I’d like to delete, then write the modified file after deleting.

For example, I’d point the script to ~/Desktop/food_items.txt which would have four lines:
hot dogs
hamburgers
french fries
ice cream

A selection list would appear showing each item… if I highlighted ‘french fries’ and ‘hot dogs’, these lines would be deleted from the text file. The file would be saved so that only ‘hamburgers’ and ‘ice cream’ remain.

Any ideas as to how to achieve this??

Hi,

try this

set filePath to (path to desktop as text) & "food_items.txt"

try
	set fileDescriptor to open for access file filePath with write permission
	set foodList to paragraphs of (read fileDescriptor as «class utf8»)
	set itemsToDelete to choose from list foodList with multiple selections allowed
	set itemsToWriteBack to {}
	if itemsToDelete is not false then
		repeat with anItem in foodList
			if contents of anItem is not in itemsToDelete then
				set end of itemsToWriteBack to contents of anItem
			end if
		end repeat
		set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, linefeed}
		set textToWriteBack to itemsToWriteBack as text
		set text item delimiters to TID
		set eof fileDescriptor to 0
		write textToWriteBack to fileDescriptor  as «class utf8»
	end if
	close access fileDescriptor
on error
	try
		close access file filePath
	end try
end try

if the text is MacRoman encoded remove the two as «class utf8» coercions

Perfect! Thanks so much for the help, this was definitely beyond my scripting skills.