Hello Wise and Kind Monks: I need a simple program to parse a text file, and modify the text file. The text looks like this.

1.7 MB | Z: \PeachTree\Forms
601.3 KB | Z: \PeachTree\Reports
149.0 KB | Z: \PeachTree\Letters
593.4 MB | Z: \Marketing Department
425.4 MB | Z: \Marketing Department\Presentations
92.9 MB | Z: \Marketing Department\Other

I need to split it on the "|". And then count the "\" in the right hand string and prefix the right hand side with that number of "|". Want to load the data into excel and make it look pretty.

This is my code.

open ( txtFileIn,  $ARGV[0] )  || die ("Could NOT open "  . $ARGV[0] .
+ ".\n");  

@txtFileIn  = <txtFileIn>;

print scalar @txtFileIn ;
foreach $row (@txtFileIn)  {

    chomp($row);
    print "\n"  .  index ($row , '|');
   ($size, $item)  =  split /|/, $row;
   
   print  "\n**",$row,  $size,  $item ;
   chomp($size); 
   chomp($item);
   
   $cnt = $item =~  s/(\\)/$1/gi;
    
    
   $item .=  ('|' x $cnt ) . $item ;
   
       # print  "\n" ,  $size . $item,  $cnt;


}  #foreach row

close txtFileIn;
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The split is not working. I have other code when split works just fine. But I do not see my silly mistake here. This what the code returns.

12
**     1.7 MB | Z: \PeachTree\Forms
12
**   601.3 KB | Z: \PeachTree\Reports
12
**   149.0 KB | Z: \PeachTree\Letters
12
**   593.4 MB | Z: \Marketing Department
12
**   425.4 MB | Z: \Marketing Department\Presentations
12
**    92.9 MB | Z: \Marketing Department\Other
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Requesting your kind assistance

kd