#!/Perl/bin/perl -w use IO::File; use strict; my $file = new IO::File; my $new_file = new IO::File; $file->open("open(">>new_mem_grp.dat"); while(!$file->eof) { my $line = $file->getline; $line =~ s/}//g; $new_file->write($line,length($line)); } $new_file->close; $file->close;