I have implemented a lot of your suggestions above, and made the code below. Its not a serious program/project but something I wrote purely for people to critique, and you have all been very helpfull - I will remember to implement these techniques in future, thanks a lot.

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
print qq(
-------------------------------------------------------
National Lottery Number Picker                    
-------------------------------------------------------
How many lines do you want to play?
);
print "Lines.....:";
my $lines = <STDIN>;
my @lines;
my @line;
die "Good.  Don't waste your money!\n" unless $lines;
my @numbers = (1..49);
srand;
print "\n";
&chooseline();
my $i = 1;
########################################
# Generate The Line(s)  
sub chooseline {
  while ($i < $lines) {
    &genline();        
        push @lines, @line;
        $i++;
        if ($i eq $lines) {
            print "\n\n";
            last;
    }
  }        
  print "\n\n";
}
#########################################
# Generate the numbers
sub genline {
    @line = '';
    my $e = 1;
        while ($e ne "7") {
            my $index   = rand @numbers;
            my $element = $numbers[$index];
            print "    $element";
            if ($e eq "6") {
                print "\n";
                push @line, $element;
                my $newline = "\n";
                push @line, $newline;
            last;
        } else {
            push @line, $element;
        }
        $e++;
} }
print "(E)mail Results / (Q)uit\n\n";
print "Action....:";
my $action = <STDIN>;
exit if $action =~ /^Q/i;
if ($action =~ /^E/i) {
    print "\nEmail address...:";
    my $email;
    $email = <STDIN>;
    chomp($email);
    die "Don't bother then, bye!" if !$email;
    print ("$email, is this correct? (y/n)...:"); 
    my $dcheck = <STDIN>;
exit if $dcheck =~ /^n/i;
    open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
        print MAIL "To: $email\n";
        print MAIL "From: Lottery Generator\n";
        print MAIL "Subject: Your Lottery Numbers\n";
        foreach my $lin (@lines) {
        print MAIL "$lin    ";
        }
    close (MAIL);
}
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