if(/(.*\(/apost))/) { if(/^(.*?)(\S+)$/) { print "#UnixLine\n"; my $start = $1; my $end = $2; $end =~ s|(.*\(/apost.*))|"(.*\(/apost.*))"|g; print "$start$end\n"; print outFile "#UnixLine\n"; print outFile "$start$end\n"; } }