#!/usr/bin/perl -wT use strict; #get inserted text my @inserted_text = ('Blah','Blah Blah'); # read in the file open (FILE,"filename") or die "Can't open file"; my @file = close(FILE) open (OUTFILE,">filename") or die "Can't open file"; my $line = 0; foreach(@file) { if ($line = 569) { foreach(@inserted_text){print OUTFILE;} } $line++; } close(OUTFILE);