#!perl -w use strict; my $line; my @array; my $CTLfile = 'y:\perl\test.ctl'; open (CTLHANDLE, "<$CTLfile"); @array = ; close(CTLHANDLE); open (CTLHANDLE, ">$CTLfile"); foreach $line(@array){ $line =~ s/SOURCEREPOSITORYNAME/SOURCEREPOSITORYNAME=Development/g; print CTLHANDLE "$line"; } close(CTLHANDLE);