The line:

    print (OUTFILE);
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prints $_ to the filehandle. But what is $_? It's set by the while loop, so it has the value of the last time the while was checked. Which was at the end of the file, and hence $_ is undefined.

That's why you get your warning, and that's why the file is empty - undef stringified gives you the empty string.

Abigail