You don't tell us what line 49 is, and I'm not going to count 49 lines. But my guess is that it is:

  print "$current others have gathered information here.\n";
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The value cannot be initialized, because you are getting a compile time error. And you are getting that because in that line, no variable $current has been declared.

If you properly indent your code, it will become obvious.

Abigail