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in reply to Re^7: Sorting names using Regular Expressions and placing them in different Files.
in thread Sorting names using Regular Expressions and placing them in different Files.

Try working up a very basic case to narrow down the functionality you are having trouble with. Something like this: 

use strict;
use warnings;
my $var = "-rw-rw-rw- 1 bsmbin bsmbin 303 Dec 4 23:00 BSC-200412041100
+00 -rw-rw-rw- 1 bsmbin bsmbin 303 Dec 4 23:00 20041204110000";

my ($transformed) = $var=~s/BSC-//;

print $var . " " . $transformed . "\n";

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