#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $fes = 'lala.txt'; my $fest = 'lalagesamt.txt'; my @lines; my $columns = 3; open (my $fh,'<',$fes) or die $!; while (my $line = <$fh>){ chomp $line; $line =~ s/\s+/;/g; $line =~ s:\b(MFG|DOME/GT|OG)\b::go; push(@lines, $line); } print @lines; close $fh or die $!; open(my $w_fh, '>', $fest) or die $!; print $w_fh @lines; close $w_fh or die $!;