hi , i am reading text from all the files in a directory one by one and then doing something with it . After manioulation i am writing the new data to to a text file with same name and extension .txt. But, i get empty files as a result of it . i did some trial and error to find where the problem was and it comes up that nothing is being read from the text file and so there is nothing to write back into the new file . i cant figure out why this is happening . can u help me find my fault?? here's the code 

#!c:\perl\perl.exe

# open directory and get all filenames in one array
my $path = "c:/perl/dvd_files/";
opendir(LOCAT, $path) or die "Couldn't open folder, $!\n";
my @folder = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir(LOCAT);
closedir (LOCAT);


# foreach file open it and strip pattern and rewrite a text file

foreach my $file (@folder)
{
my $full_path = $path.$file;
#print "$full_path\n";
open SWORD, "< $full_path" or die "file could not be opened:$!";
print "here\n";
$full_path =~ s/sub/txt/gi;
$full_path =~ s/srt/txt/gi;
$full_path =~ s/txt/txt/gi;
open WRITE, "> $full_path" or die "file could not be written:$!";
while (<SWORD>){
    print "$_\n";
    $_=~ s/[\{0-9\}\{0-9\}]//g;
    print "here";
    print WRITE $_;
    }

close (SWORD);
close (WRITE);


}

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