Perl Monks: Thanks You are the best. Obviously this is my intial forey into this. i had in my head what i wanted to do, but don't know how to accomplish.

This is working now on the data i want to manipulate. Thanks for putting me the right track.

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does this code look right. it exectutes but does not produce desired results. it changes all lines, although it is being told to look for object-group at $array[0] and the then make change if condition is met..Thanks 

open (FILE,  $ARGV[0]) or die("Error:'\n");
open(OUTPUT,">output.txt");
my $line;
 while ($line = <FILE>) {
 chomp($line);
@array = split(" ", $line);
for($array[0]=object-group) {
 print OUTPUT "set shared address-group $array[2]\n";
}
} 
close (FILE);
 exit;

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