in reply to Parsing Header Last Field

I think you have an off-by-one error. Change:
for ( my $i = 0 ; $i <= @parts ; $i++ ) {
to:
for ( my $i = 0 ; $i < @parts ; $i++ ) {

You probably need to chomp @Proto, then add the newline back to your @Assembly.

After using perltidy, here are the changes:

use warnings; use strict; use Text::ParseWords; my @Proto = <DATA>; chomp @Proto; my $Header = shift @Proto; my @Assembly; my $Nr = &parsingHeader( $Header, "Number" ); my $Nr_1 = &parsingHeader( $Header, "Number_1" ); my $name = &parsingHeader( $Header, "Name" ); foreach (@Proto) { my @fields = quotewords( ';', 0, $_ ); $fields[$Nr] =~ tr/0123456789/9876543210/ if defined $Nr; $fields[$Nr_1] =~ tr/0123456789/9876543210/ if defined $Nr_1; $fields[$name] =~ tr/A-Za-z/B-Wzb-w/ if defined $name; push @Assembly, join( ";", @fields ), "\n"; } unshift @Assembly, $Header; print @Assembly; sub parsingHeader { my $x; my $Row = shift @_; my $Column = shift @_; my @parts = split( /;/, $Row ); for ( my $i = 0 ; $i < @parts ; $i++ ) { if ( $parts[$i] eq $Column ) { $x = $i; last; } } return $x; } __DATA__ Number;Name;Age;Gender;Number_1;Dummy 123;Andrew;54;m;123;AAA 234;John;43;m;234;JJJ 345;Helen;23;w;345;HHH

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Re^2: Parsing Header Last Field
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 06, 2011 at 12:24 UTC

    Even better would be to use a Perl for loop:

    for my $i (0 .. $#parts) {

    which is clearer, safer and, as icing on the cake, is more succinct too.

    True laziness is hard work