There is definitely something wrong with your code and the use of @field. It never gets assigned to and hence cannot be used as a meaningful key into your hashes %newline or %skipaccount. Is perhaps some part of your code missing?

Also it would help if you could give us an example of the content of the rx_q.008 file so we can see what you are dealing with.

CountZero

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