Hmm, don't really understand what you are doing there, but: 
 while (<INFO>)
{
  $line=<INFO>;
}  
close INFO;  
  my @new2;
  if($var{param}) { list_param($var{param}); }
  if($var{the})   { list_the($var{the}); }

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You read in the whole file, and do nothing, but overwrite your $line. After theat you call yout sub's with the $line, which now contains only the last line of your inputfile. Maybe you should try to put the sub-calls into the while loop!? And if you want to replace everytime the same, than this maybe will work to: 
perl -p -e 's/yourstring/yournewstring/g' inputfile > outputfile

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But that might not that flexible as you need... 
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In reply to Re: using command line switches to edit file by physi
in thread using command line switches to edit file by kitty

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