1 confession, this code was written my 1 of my colleagues who left and i have to fix it. I'm trying to understand what this script exactly wants (specially the regex in my $string), so that any of my changes dont break original intent of script. Plz help me in understanding its objective and how can i transform it to read thru line by line, which is i think the easier way (atleast for a newbie like me) and yes if in the comment we change OLD to new it wud b gr8 because that is also wrong (although comments lie ;) shell#> script.pl file NEW OLD 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

BEGIN {undef $/;}

my $match = "module.*?$ARGV[2].*?([\\(;])";

my $filename = $ARGV[0];

open (INFILE, "<", $filename)  or  die "Failed to read file $filename 
+: $! \n";

$string =  <INFILE>;
close INFILE;

$string =~ s/$match/module $ARGV[1]$1/sg;

open OUTFILE, ">$ARGV[0]" || die "Failed to create $ARGV[0]\n";
print OUTFILE ($string);
close OUTFILE;

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