#! /usr/bin/perl use v5.12; use warnings; ## 2/7/19 open CONFIG, '<', 'three_Freds'; open OUTPUT, '>', 'three_Freds.out': my $three_Freds = $ARGV[0]; if (! defined $three_Freds) { die "Usage: $0 filename"; } while (<$CONFIG>) { #take one line of input at a time chomp; s/fred/\n/gi; s/Wilma/Fred/gi; s/\n/Wilma/g; print $OUTPUT $_ ; }