I'm confused by "
I cannot get any "foreach" statement to function correctly". Do you mean you want to replace
while (<INFILE>) {
my $line = $_;
with foreach?
If that is the case, there's no need for foreach, just replace those two lines with:
while (my $line = <INFILE>) {
Did you know that substr can take a 4th argument?
$juris1 = substr( $line, 99, 1 );
$juris2 = substr( $line, 148, 1 );
$juris1 = "9";
$juris2 = "Z";
#or
#
#substr( $line, 99, 1, '9' ); # 4th argument replaces
#substr( $line, 148, 1, 'Z' );# selected sub-string
It doesn't look like you're using strict and warnings. They are real timesavers and you should look in to using them.
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