Thanks for the help. This is what I have now. But there is a small problem.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print "\nWhat file would you like to open: ";
chomp($file = <STDIN>);
print "\nAttempting to open $file\n";

open(FILE, "< $file") || die "Unable to open file: $!\n";
open(OUT, "> '$file.new'") || die"Unable to create new file: $!\n";

while (<FILE>)
{
    $count++;
    $text = $_;
    
    if ($text eq "go")
    {
        $gocount++ if s/^go/\//g;
        print OUT;
    }
    
}

print "\nThere are $count lines in the file\n";
print "Go count equal $gocount\n";

close(OUT) || die "Unable to close OUT file: $!\n";
close(FILE) || die "Unable to close file: $!\n";

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It reads in 9 lines from the file. But only takes 1 go, changes it and writes that 1 to the new file. If I do a while $text eq "go" I get stuck in a loop. Have any clues. I need it to find every go in the file.

Here is the sample file.

go
go
go
go
sam
it
go
go
go

Thanks for the help,
Bobby

In reply to Re: Re: Matching Question by curtisb
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