fellow monks i think i just found a little mistake i am currently doing the exercise #1 in the tutorials under string matching & regular expressions the original code looks like this 
1: #!/usr/bin/perl
2: #this programs prompts a user for a filename and then
3: #replaces all tabs in that file with 3 spaces.
4: print "What file do you want to \"detabify?\" ";
5: $file=<>;
6: chomp $file;
7: $/=undef;             #changes the input record separator so it'll 
+read the entire file in at once
8: open FILE, "<$file";  
9: $text=<FILE>;         #reads the entire file in
10: close FILE;
11: $text=~s/\t/   /g;    #replaces tabs
12: open FILE, ">$file";
13: print $text;          #write changes to file
14: close FILE;

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shouldnt line 12 open $text instead of $file? snowrider

In reply to is this correct by snowrider

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