I made: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
open(FILE, ">height.txt") || die "file can't be opened";


while(<FILE>) {
     chomp;
     s/'/\t/g;           
   }                     
   close FILE;

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I want to replace apostrophy with a tab. so s/'/\t/g;

the file I load is something like this: 

Name     SSN        height
Person1  478937439  5'1
Person2  436655676  6'3

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My actual file is much larger than this actually.

Each field is separated by tab. Now I want to separate the height field into feet and inches. So I want to replace ' by tab.

My script doesn't work and it says an error: Filehandle main::FILE opened only for output at height line 8. Can somebody please help me ?

2001-03-16 Edit by Corion : Added formatting and changed title

In reply to Opening a file for reading or writing (was: Newbie) by padangboy

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