Why would you want to return a closed file handle?

return(FILE);
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That's the line causing the error. I'm not sure what that subroutine is supposed to do, as it is reading the file into a lexical array, local to the subroutine, and not doing anything with it afterwards. Maybe you want to:

return @avatars;
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or:

return \@avatars;
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?

Liz