Hello, i have the following input file : 

1212123x534534534534xx4545454x232322xx
0901001x876879878787xx0909918x212245xx
1212123x534534534534xx4545454x232323xx
1212133x534534534534xx4549454x232322xx
4352342xx23232xxx345545x45454x23232xxx

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Delimited with x, and the column of interest is 0-7, see below. I m trying to write a script that reads each line, checks the amount of x's and compares it against a number, if the amount if != the set number then i want the output into fh1 (output.control). Then it ll check a specific substring on each line, and print only the first encountered. (Remove duplicates but maintain order)

The code i have so far is 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
# use warnings qw/ all FATAL /;

my %seen;
my $delimiter = 'x';
my $delim_amnt_per_line = 5;



open(my $fh1, ">>", "outputcontrol.txt");
open(my $fh2, ">>", "outputoutput.txt");

while ( <> ) {
   
    my $count = ($_ =~ y/x//);
    print  "$count \n";
    # print $_;
    
    if ( $count != $delim_amnt_per_line )
    {
        print fh1 $_;
    }
    

    my ($prefix) = substr $_, 0, 7;
    next if $seen{$prefix}++;

    print $fh2;
}

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My problem is that it doesnt print anything on either filename, whereas if it was just print and i had redirected the script from the command line, it would output as normal. Can someone help me?

EDIT : I think i ve located the problem. Neither of the produced files had write permission. They were just set on read, is there a way to change this from inside the code?

In reply to Perl - Remove duplicate based on substring and check on delimiters by bopibopi

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