in reply to Escape special characters for a LaTeX file

Welcome. You didn't say what's going wrong but changing

else{next;}

to 

else {
    print "skipping : $_ :\n";
}

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will give you a clue.

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Re^2: Escape special characters for a LaTeX file
by Laurent_R (Canon) on Dec 14, 2014 at 10:34 UTC
    And BTW, the 
    else{next;}

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    statement is pretty much useless in this context, since the program would go to the next DATA record anyway.
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