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That's a long known issue which can only be solved by patching cperl-mode.

I identified the necessary changes in a discussion in "gnu emacs help" some years ago and Ilya welcomed any patches...¹

Don't know if recent versions already solved this...

HTH ! =)

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

update

An easy workaround is to put the opening bracket into the next line...

Sorry can't demonstrate while on mobile...

update

See also http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IndentingPerl

footnotes
¹) see here CPerl-Mode Indentation and here
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Re^2: Formatting Perl code with Emacs (updated)
by isntvoid (Novice) on Nov 07, 2013 at 08:17 UTC

    Thank you!

    I've read Indenting Perl later and tried to customize Emacs with cperl-* variables, but it doesn't help.

    So, I have to continue using Vim for coding, because I need a tool, not the master...

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