Finally, days later, most of the script is finally setup. It isn't exactly how I want it, it still has problems if the right side is null but I'll be using === to represent "nothing" and fix that later.

This is the main question I was wondering about when this project started.. I'm trying to do a s/// with two arrays, substitute @first_half with @second_half. The arrays are setup in such a way where $first_half[0] is to be replaced with $second_half[0] and so on-- so the array indexes are aligned perfectly.

open(FILE, "file.txt") or die "Oops:$!";
my $contents = <FILE>;

while (<FILE>)
{
   do every possible s/// with the two arrays here
}

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Any help would be very appreciated and out of curiousity, have any of you done something like this before or is this a rather silly way to do it?

Thank you wise monks.



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In reply to s/// with 2 arrays by sulfericacid

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