open (IN, "<:utf8", "output.txt"); my $in = ; while ($in) { #doing some formatting $in =~ s/\'//g; $in =~ s/\=//g; $in =~ s/\>//g; $in =~ s/(.*)(left)(.*)/$1$2$3/g; $text->insert('end', "$3"); } $in = ; } close IN;