But none seemed right, as the code I want to separate is NOT generic (ie uses globals in main, etc.)

You really need to fix that, or any "organization" is just a waste of time.

Try figuring out how you can divide up the work your program does in logical parts and then separate them out as modules.

  perldoc perlmod
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should be of help (Also available at perldoc.com).

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