You'd need to post the updated code if you are to get help with it.

My mistake. I updated my original post instead of pasting the code onto another post.

@pdblines is empty, so you never enter your for loop:

my @pdblines = ();

 while (<IN>) {
 for ( @pdblines) {
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I can't begin to work out what you think should happen here.

BTW: If you indent your code correctly and consistently, more people will be encouraged to consider it.

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