in reply to Compare variables when the number of them vary

That's a job for the all function of List::MoreUtils!

Replace your test by

if ( all { $serials[0] eq $_ } @serials ) { ...

PS: I replaced your == test by eq and then you can probably delete the no warnings 'numeric';

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