Just a note: rather than split into a zillion variables, IMO it's more maintainable to list your field names in an array, then split into a hash variable:

my @fields = qw(
 serverhostname
 execdate
 etc.
);

while (<INFILE>) {
  chomp;
  my %stuff;
  @stuff{@fields} = split /\|/;

  # Easy iteration over fields (e.g. for debugging)
  print "[$_][$stuff{$_}]\n" for @fields;
}
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