Your files are empty becuase you are printing nothing to them.

In your loop you have 
$commentout = $commentout .= $position;
s/$position/$commentout/;
print OTHER;  #THIS LINE HERE!!
$x++;

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That line does nothing. If you want to write to your file you would do 
print OTHER "I am printing foo to file\n";

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another thing that should be pointed out 

s/$position/$commentout/

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This does nothing. Are you trying to do a regular expresion with that? If so you need to go back and read up on the Perl regular expressions. It should have the form 
$variable =~ s/<regular-expression>/<substitution-here>/;

#For example the following 

my $variable = "Blue Car";
print $variable."\n";
$variable =~ s/Blue/Red/;
print $variable."\n";

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I hope that helps

p.s. For better posting encapsulate your scripts inside the 
<code>
tags.

In reply to Re: Opening a file, editing, copying to another by Grundle
in thread Opening a file, editing, copying to another by theintern

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