#!/usr/bin/perl my $filestring = $ARGV[0]; my $outfile_str = "$ARGV[1]"."_new"; open(IN, "<$filestring"); open(OUT, ">$outfile_str"); my $string_parser; while(){ $string_parser = ; print "$string_parser"; chomp $string_parser; chop $string_parser; print OUT "$string_parser "; } close(IN); close(OUT); Any ideas?