while(<@eachline>){

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You are interpolating the array @eachline in a double quoted context and then using the glob function on the resulting string: 

$ perl -MO=Deparse -e'while(<@eachline>){}'
use File::Glob ();
while (defined($_ = glob(join($", @eachline)))) {
    ();
}
-e syntax OK

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this is a very obtuse way to split a string on whitespace: 

$ perl -le'my @eachline = ( "one two three four\n", "five six seven ei
+ght\n" ); while(<@eachline>){print}'
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight

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It looks like you may want something like this: 

use strict; 
use warnings;

open my $FILEHANDLE, "<", "Action5.c" or die "cannot open < Action5.c:
+ $!";

my %patterns = (
    transaction => 0,
    find        => 0,
    think       => 0,
    save_param  => 0,
    start_sub   => 0,
    url         => 0,
    submit      => 0,
    );

while ( my $line = <$FILEHANDLE> ) {
    for my $pattern ( keys %patterns ) {
        $patterns{ $pattern } += () = $line =~ /$pattern/g;
        }
    }

for my $pattern ( keys %patterns ) {
    print "Number of patterns found for".$pattern." is ".$patterns{ $p
+attern }."\n";
    }

close $FILEHANDLE;

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In reply to Re: Better way of doing! by jwkrahn
in thread Better way of doing! by Xhings

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