my $FILENAME4 = "organized.txt"; open(DATA2, $FILENAME4); #### my $FILENAME4 = "organized.txt"; open DATA2, '<', $FILENAME4 or die "Cannot open '$FILENAME4' $!"; #### #remove all previous re-organized files my $remove_reorganized = "re-organized.txt"; if (unlink($remove_reorganized) == 1) { print "Existing \"re-organized.txt\" file was removed\n"; } #now make a file for the ouput my $outputfile = "re-organized.txt"; if (! open(POS, ">>$outputfile") ) { print "Cannot open file \"$outputfile\" to write to!!\n\n"; exit; } #### # make a file for the ouput my $outputfile = "re-organized.txt"; open POS, '>', $outputfile or die "Cannot open file '$outputfile' to write to because: $!"; #### $organized =~ s/(\w+)[^(^\d+)(\s)]/z/g;