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Secondly, it would have been better to create a more meaningful title for the posting: "Simple or not" conveys no useful meaning.

Now, on to (what I think is) your problem. If you are trying to replace all whitespace in your input with tabs, then preserve the newline, the following should accomplish that task (untested): 

use strict;
use warnings;

open my $fh_in , '<', 'test1.txt' or die "Can not open file test1.txt:
+ $!";
open my $fh_out, '>', 'test2.txt' or die "Can not open file test2.txt:
+ $!";
while (<$fh_in>) {
    s/\s+/\t/g;    
    print $fh_out "$_\n";
}
close $fh_out;
close $fh_in;

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In my opinion, you never clearly stated what your goal was. It would have been more useful if you had supplied a few sample lines of your input file, your actual output and your expected output.

In reply to Re: Simple or not by toolic
in thread Simple or not by apachi15

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