Hello Perl Monks, I want to write a script which can modify an entry in a file. For Ex: The file test.txt contains a single line: Identity = "Winged" My perl script has to find the string Identity in the file test.txt and replace the word next to = to say ABC. Below is my perl script; but got stuck at replacing the word section. Dont know how to go about modifying it in the file. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
$ModFile = $ARGV[0];
$Setting = $ARGV[1];

open FH, ">$ModFile" or die "Cannot open $ModFile.\n";
while (<FH>)
{
    if($_ =~ /^Identity/i)
    {
        chomp($_);
            /=(.*?)$/;
            ####$1 contains everything after =; but dont #know how to 
+replace it.

    }
}

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Please guide me regarding this.

In reply to Modifying entries in a file. by nisha

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