I have spent hours on attempting to figure out why my simple search/replace string in a text file is not doing any replacing. I looked in online forums, but I believe this script is correct. Is there anything that would prevent a search/replace? My file is not read only. Also, when I print @lines to a log file, it actually prints the lines from the text file that I want to do a search/replace.

The file is called Mark.txt and only has one value "NAME". It is my test before I begin to do search/replace on a real file.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Find;
open (logfilefsv, '>>logfsv.txt');
$file = "C:/TestPerlFSV/Mark.txt";
open(IN, "+<$file");
#my $old = "N";
#my $new = "M";
@lines=<IN>;
print logfilefsv @lines;
foreach $file (@lines) {s/N/M/gi;}

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