open (IN, "; close IN; open (OUT, ">daten2.xml") || die "cannot open file"; while (@file_lines) { $file_line=~s/ü/ü\;/g; $file_line=~s/ö/ö\;/g; $file_line=~s/ä/ä\;/g; print OUT  "$file_line"; } close (OUT);