Dear Monks,
I want to abbreviate certain words found in my input.txt based on the entries found in jabb.txt and write the output to output.txt file. The jabb.txt file contains 2 columns separated by tab. 1st column is abbreviated text and the second one is full text. 
input.txt
This is an example section.
And the second line has structural science.

jabb.txt
eg <tab> example
exp <tab> expand
sect <tab> section 
sci <tab> science

output.txt (required output)
This is an eg sect.
And the second line has structural sci.

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With the following code i have written, my output.txt contains just the text ‘1’. 
use strict;
use warnings;

   open( ABB, '<', 'jabb.txt' ) or die "Couldn't open ABB.\n$!";
   open( IN, '<', 'input.txt' ) or die "Couldn't open infile.\n$!";
   open( OUT, '>', 'output.out' ) or die "Couldn't open outfile.\n$!";
   
   my @myin = <IN>;

   while(<ABB>){
      if(/(.*?)\t(.*?)\n/){
      my $abb=$1;
      my $full=$2;
      print "@myin\n";
      @myin = s/$full/$abb/g;
      }
  }
  print OUT "@myin\n";

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please help me in correcting this script.

In reply to find and replace by texuser74

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