while (my $line=<$fh>) { chomp $line; for($line) { s/\&//g; s/[\\\_\@\_]//g; s/COMMENT//g; } my @data = split /:/, $line; my $class = $data[0] ? 'normal' : 'bold'; print $fh_out qq[]; for my $word(@data){ print $fh_out '' .$word .''; } print $fh_out "\n"; }