use strict; use warnings; my $ips = 'ip.dat'; my $in_data = 'DJB.dat'; my $out_data = 'DJB_new.dat'; my %ip_map; # you should ask for a shared lock in case someone updates this open IPS, "< $ips" or die "Couldn't open $ips for reading: $!"; while ( ) { my ( $ip, $name ) = split /:/, $_, 2; warn "$ip is already mapped to $ip_map{$ip }" if exists $ip_map{ $ip }; chomp $name; $ip_map{ $ip } = $name; } close IPS; open IN_DATA, "< $in_data" or die "Couldn't open $in_data for reading: $!"; open OUT_DATA, "> $out_data" or die "Couldn't open $out_data for writing: $!"; while ( ) { my $replace; my $ip = ''; ( $replace, $ip ) = ( /^\+([^:]+):([\d.]+)/ ); if ( exists $ip_map{ $ip } ) { s/$replace/$ip_map{ $ip }/; } print OUT_DATA $_; } close OUT_DATA; close IN_DATA;