#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; open (FILE, $ARGV[0]) or die "unable to open file"; open (OUTFILE, ">$ARGV[1]"); my @array = ; my $line; split_file (@array); sub split_file { # my $line = $_; chomp ($line); # my @array = @_; my (@array) = split(/\s+/, $_); $array[8] =~ s/\%//g; return @array; }