The idea is simple enough. Take a text file containing text like this:
Fred Flintstone
Barney Rubble
Dino The Dinosaur

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remove all the spaces and then transliterate them as shown in the code below:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings ;
use diagnostics ;
use strict ;

open (LIST, "sn.txt") or die "No file exists: $!" ;

open (NEWFILE, '+> C:/Lou/Perl_Scripts/code/perl/pwd.txt') or die "Can
+'t open file; $!" ;
#I am intentionally erasing the file pwd.txt

    my($cname, $name, $pwd);
    while(<LIST>) {
        chomp;
        
        $cname = $name = $_ ;
        $name =~ s/\s//g;
        $name = $pwd = $_ ;
        $pwd =~ tr  [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw
+xyz]
                    [2223334445556667778889990022233344455566677788899
+900] ;
        
        write NEWFILE ;
        
        }

close LIST or die "Can't close file: $!" ;
close NEWFILE or die "Can't close file: $!" ;

format NEWFILE_TOP =
------    ------    
NAME      PWD
------    ------
.

format NEWFILE =
@<<<<<    @<<<<<
$name,   $pwd
.

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My code is NOT removing the spaces. I have also tried $name =~ s/\+s//g;
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ellem@optonline.net
There's more than one way to do it, but only some of them actually work.

In reply to Removing Spaces From A File by ellem

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