Hi , I am very new to Perl, and I have written a small snippet that will read a file and should replace the pattern matched lines in the file and should print the changed file. Somebody, please tell me if my approach is right. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

$input_file = "dump.vcd";
open (INPUT, "$input_file");
while ($efile = <INPUT>) {
    for ($i = 0; $i <$#efile; $i++) {
        $efile[$i] =~ s/\$var\w \d+ ([!,\#,\",\$,\%,&]) (\w) \$end/\$v
+ar $1 $2/
    }
        print "$efile";
}
close (INPUT);

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