The only problem I had with your code is the 'S' symbol. Under the 'strict' pragma the program requires 's' for the substitution expression.
Now I can't match oko1 in code size (nor anywhere else), but inspired from the funny discovery that your arguments are in alphabetic order, here is my code
use strict;

my @params=qw(input output pattern replacement);
my %settings; @settings{@params}=("0")x @params;
foreach my $key (sort keys %settings) {
    print "$key="; 
    chomp($settings{$key}=<>);
    }
open IN,"<",$settings{"input"} || die "not a rockstar today"; 

-e $settings{"output"} and die("File Exists..will not override!") or o
+pen(OUT,">",$settings{"output"}) or die "Error while opening file: $!
+";

 while (<IN>) { # 
    s/$settings{"pattern"}/$settings{"replacement"}/g;    
    print OUT $_;
 } # end while

close (IN);
close (OUT);

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In reply to Re: Not A Rockstar File Manipulator Today by ptoulis
in thread Not A Rockstar File Manipulator Today by koolgirl

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