first of all, thank you for your effort :) I wrote another program and I'm sure I am nearer to the solution than ever. However, it doesn't do anything: 

#! usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::File;

my @out;
my @file_names = ("output1.txt", "output2.txt", "output3.txt");
my $i = 0;

while (<>){
    
    foreach (@ARGV){
        open (READ, $ARGV) || die "Cannot open $ARGV: $!.\n";
        $out[$i] = IO::File->new( ">file_names[$i]" ) || die "Cannot o
+pen file_names[$i]: $!.\n";
        $i++;
        while ( <READ> ){
            print {$out[$i]} "$_";
        }
        
    }
}

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so what's the problem?

In reply to Re^4: reading files to different output files. by ic23oluk
in thread reading files to different output files. by ic23oluk

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