Verbal, I tried the code out the way you had asked.It takes the input in however, it doesn't do anything with it. By the way, I am the one, who is trying to read the total from a file, and spit it out to another file. My code reads following:

print "Input file name: ";
$_ = <>;
chop;
open(INFILE, $_);
while (<INFILE>)
{
    if(m/total/)
        {
            s/^total\s[0-9]+\s[0-9]+\s([0-9]+)\s([0-9]+)$/$1 $2/;
            print;
        }
    }
close INFILE
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I think the program is getting the input, however it is just not doing anything with it. Once I enter the name of the file, it just sits there, instead of parsing. How come?? THanks Paav

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