dear perlmonks, I have no idea why this is not working, I don't know if it has to do with the file read (<) operator or what. I want to substitute a pattern using the s/// command. I know it is finding the pattern but will not substitute. Keep in my mind that this script opens up another file and looks for this string and then substitutes it with "". Basically I believe that this is the way to delete words with a text file. But either way I can't seem to get this code to work. 
$file = '\\\daaecrmpd\d$\dba\freespacemonitor\directory.txt';

open(FILE, "<$file") or die "can't open $file: $!";  
while (<FILE>){
    s/total_bytes/""/ig;
}

close FILE;

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