When you did @arr = <FH>;, you broke your file into an array of lines. One per array element.

When you do foreach $data(@arr){, you are setting $data to each of those lines in turn. Ie. $data will only ever contain one line at a time.

So, when you do $data =~ s/(^\.\w+\s+)(\w+)(\s+)(.+\w+$)(\s+\. \.$)/$2,$4/smx;, which is attempting to match this: 

.define lok_tabs
        lock tab book_tab, book_mat, custdata2, ed_tab,
        book_rates, print_tab in share update mode
..

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which is spread over 4 lines, it will always fail.

How could it match 4 lines in one line?

Do you have any ideas for how you might get around this problem?

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In reply to Re^11: Converting Oracle report language code into perl by BrowserUk
in thread Converting Oracle report language code into perl by denzil_cactus

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