Are you trying to use ref as a filehandle? If so, your code is probably not being parsed the way you think it is since ref is a perl built-in function

What exactly is in $searchlist?

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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';
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