I am a newbie to Perl, and am trying to use a simple script to read from one file and write to another. The file I am reading from has two text strings that very in length (many iterations) and I think the problem lies in my regex as all I can get it to do is write "1" on two lines (minus the "") Can you help?

TIA

here is an example of the two text strings that vary in length

points: "_eglErdrm@}}vA|}vAihtB~}vAik{C|}vA}~mHnojBgzlBjy[aktAoeAooo@_l`@wl^y{oA",

levels: "PKLMOKNLP",

Here is my code so far..

open(FILEREAD, "< read.js") or die "Cannot open FILEREAD:$!";
open(FILEWRITE, "> write.js") or die "Cannot open FILEWRITE:$!"; 
while (<FILEREAD>){
    $points = s//(points)+.,/;
    $levels = s//(levels)+.,/;
    print FILEWRITE "$points\n";
    print FILEWRITE "$levels\n";
}
close FILEWRITE;
close FILEREAD;

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