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Dear Friend msalam65 ,

You can use the following coding for your requirement

Code:

use strict;
use warnings;
my $var;
open(FH,"<fil4")or die "can't open";
while($var=<FH>)
{
  chomp($var);
  $var=~s/[0-9]{2,}//g;
  print "$var\n";
}

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Thanks durden_tyler. The perl command worked. Thanks again.

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