One thing that may be causing you problems is concatenation in '$dirpath'. Try making these changes:

my $template = $dirPath . "rss_outtemplate.htm";
my $fullOutfile = $dirPath . "rss.htm";
my $newName = $dirPath . $fileTag . "rss.htm";
my $rss_output = $dirPath . "rss.xml";
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