Replacing a substring in a text

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Im trying to use the
$variable_name =~ s/[string_to_remove]/[string_to_add]

command to replace text found in an array.

Code below is direct excerpt from my code.

$emptyReplace = "($FORM{'elementName'})";
$empty = "EMPTY";
foreach $i (@xmlFileArray)
{
    if ($i =~ /$empty/)
    {
        @displayArray[$displayCount] =~ $i/$empty/emptyReplace/i;
        $displayCount ++;
    }
}

the text is in XML format and has been passed into an array for the program to modify. I know that the word im looking to replace. Which in this case is "empty" is in the file but when I later view the @displayArray the reference to empty has not been replaced.

Any suggestions as to why this is not working much appreciated.

 

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Question Withdrawn error found unrelated to the code that was being pointed to.