#!/usr/lib/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; { my $file1 = '/home/greyfox/data/TBLLOTUSNOTESPYRAMID.txt'; print "$file1\n"; local( $/, *INPUT ); open( INPUT, $file1 ) or die "Can't open $file1 $!\n"; our $text = ; close INPUT or die "Can't close INPUT $!"; } my $file2 = '/home/greyfox/data/ConvTable.txt'; open (FD, $file2) or die "Can't open $file2 $!"; while (my $line = ) { my @data = split (/\t/, $line); $data[0] =~ s/[ ]+$//g; $data[0] =~ s/,./,/g; our $text =~ s/$data[0]/$data[2]/g; our $text =~ s/$data[1]/$data[3]/g; print our $text; } close FD or die "Can't close FD $!";