Hello Fellow Monks of perl;

I'm having difficulties in declaring the $text field as global to the entire program. I've separated the slurp of the file into a separate scope, so that I can read the conversion parameter's line by line. How can I use the same $text that I slurped, in my while statement. What I have is a list of bogus names and clock numbers that I am globally replacing in my text file.

#!/usr/lib/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

{
    my $file1 =
       '/home/greyfox/data/TBLLOTUSNOTESPYRAMID.txt';
    print "$file1\n";
    local( $/, *INPUT );
    open( INPUT, $file1 ) or die "Can't open $file1 $!\n";
    our $text = <INPUT>;
    close INPUT or die "Can't close INPUT $!";
}
my $file2 =
  '/home/greyfox/data/ConvTable.txt';

open (FD, $file2) or die "Can't open $file2 $!";
while (my $line = <FD>) {
   my @data = split (/\t/, $line);
   $data[0] =~ s/[ ]+$//g;
   $data[0] =~ s/,./,/g;
   our $text =~ s/$data[0]/$data[2]/g;
   our $text =~ s/$data[1]/$data[3]/g;
   print our $text;  
}  
close FD or die "Can't close FD $!";

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-- Grey Fox
Perl - Hours to learn lifetime to master.

2006-09-03 Retitled by Arunbear, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Use of a global scaler.'

In reply to Use of a global scalar by Grey Fox

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