Hello Monks,
I'm reading a file ans sub "," with "|" , then I'm trying to strip the last string $var7 to take only certain values out of the string and concatenate the string back and pint it to a file. It is giving some errors like " Global symbol "$n" requires special package" Here is my code. I'll appreciate any help.

#! perl -w

use strict;

#use File::Find;

#use File::Copy cp;


open(IN, '<c:/doclist.chr') or die "Couldn't open file, $!";

open(OUT, '>c:/doclist.txt') or die "Couldn't open file, $!";


##   print OUT join '|', split /,/ while <IN>;

while(<IN>) 
{
   chomp;  # Remove the newline
   my ($var1, $var2, $var3, $var4, $var5, $var6, $var7) = split /,/;

   my $string1 = $var7;

   substr($string1, 24) = "H:\";
 
   my $string2 = substr($var7,25,2);

   my $string3 = substr($var7,-13);

   my $finstring = $string1.$string2.$string3;    
      

## Find file in sub-directory


#    find(\&wanted, '', '/bar');
#    sub wanted { ... }


#     find \&wanted, "./";

#sub wanted {
#        print "$File::Find::name ", (-s $File::Find::name);
#        print "\n";
#}

## Copy file to another directory

#    copy("file1","file2");
#    copy("Copy.pm",\*STDOUT);'
#    move("/dev1/fileA","/dev2/fileB");

      
#    $n = FileHandle->new("/a/file","r");
#    cp($n,"x");'  

    

 #  print OUT $var1,"|",$var2,"|",$var3,"|",$var4,"|",$var5,"|",$var6,
+"|",$finstring,"\n";

    
    
}
exit;





    






#sub get_line {
  # prompts for, reads, chomps, and returns a line of input 
#print $_[0];
#chomp(my $line = <STDIN>);
#$line;
#}

# my $source = &get_line("Which source file? ");
 
# open IN,

# $source or die "Can't open '$source' for input: $!";

# my $dest = &get_line("what destination file? ");

# die "Won't Overwrite Existing File"

#  if -e $dest;  #optional safety test

#  open OUT, ">$dest" or die "Can't open '$dest' for output: $!";

#  my $pattern = &get_line("What search pattern: ");

#  my $replace = &get_line("What replacement string: ");


#while (<IN>) {

#  s/$pattern/$replace/g;

#  print OUT $_;
#}




   
###

##foreach my $file (glob "*.old")  {
#    my $newfile = $file;
#    $newfile =~ s/\.old$/ .new/;
#    if (-e $newfile) {
#       warn "can't rename $file to $newfile: $newfile exists\n";
#    } elsif (rename $file, $newfile)  {
#      ## success, do nothing
#    } else  {
#       warn "rename $file to $newfile failed: $!\n";
#    }
#}


###

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20030217 Edit by Corion: Added formatting

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