#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; sub process_file { my ($original, $final) = @_; open( my $original_fh, "<", $original ) or die $!; open( my $final_fh, ">", $final ) or die $!; my $first = <$original_fh>; print $final_fh $first; my @replace = $first =~ /"([^"]*)"/g; while (my $line = <$original_fh>) { print "Enter the desired number of columns: "; my $nr = ; chomp($nr); $line =~ s/((\w\w\t){$nr})/$1\n/g; $line =~ s/\t/,/g; $line =~ s/(\d{2})/$replace[$1]/g; print $final_fh $line; } close $original_fh; close $final_fh; } my @files = glob '*.bit'; for my $name (@files) { my $new_file = $name =~ s/bit$/csv/r; process_file($name, $new_file); }