If it's just a one off then you can take advantage of perl's command-line switches e.g 
perl -pi -e 'm{^/index} and s/$/%/' file

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Or if you want to do it programmatically and are working with relatively small files then make use of Dominus' marvellous Tie::File 
use Tie::File;

tie my @fl, 'Tie::File', "filename.here"
  or die "ack: $!";

for(@fl) {
  m{^/index} and s/$/%/;
}

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And if you're working with large files then this might be a better solution 
open(my $in_fh,  '<', "input.filename")  or die "ack: $!";
open(my $out_fh, '>', "output.filename") or die "ack: $!";

while(<$in_fh>) {
  m{^/index} and $_ .= "%";
  print {$out_fh} $_;
}

close $in_fh;
close $out_fh;

rename( "output.filename", "input.filename" )
  or die "ack: $!";

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HTH

_________
broquaint

update: have fixed code to DTRT, thanks to delirium

In reply to Re: add character to all lines starting with.. by broquaint
in thread add character to all lines starting with.. by Anonymous Monk

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