Respectable monks I have no idea how to start on this project so I will start off with a question,if you have a file

file1:home/gonzales/something.c11111entry/kapoeira/anotherthing.c11111111111111111vikings/georgebush/house.c1111111111

and another file file2:22222222222222222222222222222222

we have in file 1 as many "1" as there are "2" in file 2 and I would like to get an output of output:home/gonzales/something.c22222entry/kapoeira/anotherthing.c22222222222222222vikings/georgebush/house.c2222222222

So my question is,is there a way to tell my program to look in file 1 find out how many "1" are between the ".c" and the "entry",how many are between the ".c" and "vikings" a.s.o and take the values from file 2 and replace the ones from file 1.I am really new to perl programming so I have no idea on how to do this...Thank you in advance :D 

use warnings 'all';
use strict;
use autodie;

open my $input, '<', 'file1.txt';
open my $input2, '<', 'file2.txt';
open my $out,   '>', 'output.txt';

while ( my $sentence = <$input> ) {

    my $substring = '\.c.*?entry';
    $sentence =~ s{$substring}{$file2};

    print $out , $sentence;
}

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I was thinking of using something like quotemeta but I dont know how to use it in my purpose

In reply to work with files by no0bieMonk

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