use strict; use warnings; use POSIX qw{ strftime }; use Digest::MD5; my $origFile = q{cr835.txt}; open my $origFH, q{<}, $origFile or die qq{open: < $origFile: $!\n}; my $line = <$origFH>; close $origFH or die qq{close: < $origFile: $!\n}; my $payeeID; if ( $line =~ m{INC\*XX\*(\d+)} ) { $payeeID = $1; } else { die qq{Could not match payee ID\n}; } my $newFile = qq{cr835-} . $payeeID . strftime q{-processed_%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M.txt}, localtime; open my $newFH, q{>}, $newFile or die qq{open: > $newFile: $!\n}; print $newFH $line; close $newFH or die qq{close: > $newFile: $!\n}; my $origMD5 = Digest::MD5 ->new() ->addfile( do { open my $fh, q{<}, $origFile or die $!; $fh; } ) ->hexdigest(); my $newMD5 = Digest::MD5 ->new() ->addfile( do { open my $fh, q{<}, $newFile or die $!; $fh; } ) ->hexdigest(); if ( $origMD5 eq $newMD5 ) { unlink $origFile or die qq{unlink: $origFile: $!\n}; } else { die qq{Original and new files differ\n}; }