I'm confused by "I cannot get any "foreach" statement to function correctly". Do you mean you want to replace

while (<INFILE>) {
    my $line = $_;

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with foreach? If that is the case, there's no need for foreach, just replace those two lines with:

while (my $line = <INFILE>) {

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Did you know that substr can take a 4th argument? 

$juris1 = substr( $line, 99, 1 );
$juris2 = substr( $line, 148, 1 );

$juris1 = "9";
$juris2 = "Z";

#or
#
#substr( $line, 99, 1, '9' ); # 4th argument replaces
#substr( $line, 148, 1, 'Z' );# selected sub-string

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It doesn't look like you're using strict and warnings. They are real timesavers and you should look in to using them.

In reply to Re: Replacing Text At Specific Positions by FunkyMonk
in thread Replacing Text At Specific Positions by sheasbys

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