chomp (@array = system "ls $results\/*.tar.gz");

The system function does not return its output - only its exit code. You probably want to use backticks instead. eg:

chomp (@array = `ls ${results}/*.tar.gz`);
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Update: obviously a slow typing day for me :-) As my learned brethren have pointed out there are much better ways of doing this than shelling out at all.