hey monks,
I was messing around with FILEHANDLE and tr/ / / earlier today and came up with this little script just for practice: 
#! /usr/bin/perl

print 'Enter path of file: ';

 chomp($path = <>);

open(FH,"$path") || die "$!\n";

while (<FH>){

 $_=~ tr/a-zA-Z/0-310/;

 print " $_\n";}

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What I really wanted to do here was to add a few more lines of code that would make perl create a new file in the same directory and prompt me to enter the new name of the file but to not overwrite the file I opened above. I was looking around and do believe that I need to add: 
use cwd;
$dir = getcwd;
#etc..
print 'Enter new file name: ';

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I am looking around perlmonks and all that I have been able to come up with so far are:
Node#183899
and
mkpath()
but I am unsure if whether or not these pages will suffice for what I am trying to do.

"Es gibt mehr zu Leben als Bücher, kennen Sie. Aber nicht viel mehr " -(Der Smiths)

In reply to Take file A , translate it, place in new file by sub_chick

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