I strongly recommend you use use warnings which will give you some information about your problem even with a bollixed bang-splat line. Your first line should include a !, although if you are running on Windows that line is less important:

#!usr/bin/perl -w
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With use warnings; (preferred technique) or the corrected bang-splat line above your script will generate something like:

Useless use of anonymous list ([]) in void context at noname.pl line 1
+0.
Useless use of anonymous list ([]) in void context at noname.pl line 1
+0.
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in addition to the $VAR1 dump.