in reply to Re^2: Simple Text Manipulation
in thread Simple Text Manipulation

See perlintro, perlrun

Look, I'm returned to the prompt also

$ perl -e 1 $

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Re^4: Simple Text Manipulation
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 05, 2011 at 19:41 UTC

    I should have been more specific. I'm returned to the command line with no processing having been done to the file and no new file created.

      So, what steps have you taken to debug this? What code have you used? What input data?