Harold

Thanks for that. I'll definitely be giving that a try shortly. Right now I have it working with the static file with this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

&readfile;

sub readfile{

#open the file 
  my $source = 'test.txt';
  my $dest = 'temp1.txt';
  chomp $source;
  open SOURCE, '<', $source or die "Cannot open '$source' $!";
  open DEST,   '>', $dest   or die "Cannot open '$dest' $!";
  while (<SOURCE>){
    s/(T18)//g;
    print DEST; 
    }   
  close SOURCE;
  close DEST;

}
__DATA__

FF151B8A0283043DB070000
FF161B83264643AAD4370FF
FF171B8581BE0010000FFFF
__END__

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I was originally doing it all with regex, but found this to be much easier:-)

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