Hi all, The following code works fine when dealing with a single file, but having troubles with mulitple files. Essentially, takes each file found, replaces the first few columns of this file with a set of columns form another file called replace. The main i think is the way i am printing to an output file, it might be better to overwrite the file in question. Any suggestions? 
@files = File::Find::Rule->file
                         ->name('complex.*')
                         ->in ("/home");

$new = 'replace';
open (REPLACE, "<$new");

while (<REPLACE>) {

push @new, $_ =~ m/^(\S+\s+\S+\s+\S+)/;
             }
close (REPLACE);


foreach $file (@files) {

open (FH, "<$file");

open (OUT, ">output");

while (<FH>) {

$_ =~ s/^\S+\s+\S+\s+\S+/$new[$i++] /;

print OUT $_;
$count++;
rename "NEWNAMES", "NEWNAMES$count";
}
close(FH);
}

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20040928 Edit by Steve_p: Changed title from 'File::Find'

In reply to Replacing text in multiple files using File::Find by Anonymous Monk

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