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Perl: remove tab characters from lines

Ho can I remove tab characters from a line?
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$infile = "input.txt";
open(DATA, $infile);
@lines_var = <DATA>;

for( $i = 0; $i < $#lines_var; $i++
{
     // remove tabs from every line

}

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// remove tabs from every line
s/\1//g
Sorry,
// remove tabs from every line
s/\t//g;
Actually

foreach (@lines_var)
{
    // remove tabs from every line
    s/\t//g;
}
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So, is that the following that I need to do?  seems not to be working.
$infile = "input.txt";
open(DATA, $infile);
@lines_var = <DATA>;

for( $i = 0; $i < $#lines_var; $i++
{
   $lines_var[$i] = s/\t//g;
}

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s/\t//g for @lines_var;