I think the best approach is to split up your problem into several parts:

  1. Reading input files - you already have this using Path::Tiny
  2. Correlating the input data and replacing the input data in the template - this part maybe needs some more clarification but basically also works
  3. Writing the resulting output - again, Path::Tiny offers a way to write the files

Regarding issue 2, the input data: You haven't been explicitly clear about this, but I think from your statements that the first line of the users file corresponds to the first line of the IP addresses file. If that is the case, using a templating engine is even more advised, like HTML::Template, but you can also do with the simplest templating engine, s///e:

sub fill_template {
    my( $template, %values ) = @_;
    my $re_values = join "|", map { "\b$_\b" } reverse sort keys %valu
+es;
    $template =~ s!($re_values)!exists $values{ $1 } ? $values{ $1 } :
+ $1!gre;
}

for my $linenumber (0..$#arr) {
    my $user_data = fill_template( $data, USER_C => $arr[$i], IP => $a
+rr1[$i] );
    print $user_data; # well, output to a file, but that's another pro
+blem
}

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Update: s/Path::Class/Path::Tiny, spotted by marto

In reply to Re^5: Need to replace string from external file by Corion
in thread Need to replace string from external file by bhupi70007

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