#!/usr/bin/perl use Getopt::Long; use strict; my $template; my $replacement; my $prefix; my $total; my $counter; my @template; GetOptions ( "template=s" => \$template, "replacement=s" => \$replacement, "prefix=s" => \$prefix, "total=i" => \$total, ); open FH, "< $template" or die "Couldn't open the file $template\n"; @template = ; close FH;