#! perl -w use strict; open(MYOUTFILE, ">$ENV{HOME}/tmp/design_name_dnp_top") or die "Could not open design_name_dnp_top for writing: $!"; open (FILEH, "$ENV{HOME}/tmp/strfile") or die "Could not open strfile: $!"; while () { chomp; /\/([^\/]+)\d$/; print MYOUTFILE $1."topdnp\n"; } close(FILEH); close(MYOUTFILE);