Hi, i think i am a little further along than i was now, but i am getting a message:

Global symbol "$num" requires explicit package name at <path>

heres the code as i have it: 

use warnings;
use strict;

open my $fh, '+>', 'output.txt'
  or die("Can't open the damn file!: $!");
  
 
while(my $line = 'mytextfile');

{
    chomp $line;
    my ($name, $num) = split(/\s+(?=\d)/, $line)

    # some lines have whitespace after the num

    $num =~ s/\s+//g;

    if ($num =~ /^\d{4}$/){
        $num = "(333)-447-$num";
    }
    elsif ($num =~ /^\d{3}-\d{4}$/){
        $num = "(333)-$num";
    }

    print $fh "$name $num\n";
}

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