I've run the following using -w, with only one minor complaint. Also run it using -d, and found that for some reason, it doesn't enter the while loop on line 14. Can anyone help me figure out why I'm not entering the while? The script doesn't die on the filehandle open, so I know that's not a problem. There is one detail that might be important--the file I'm opening with has only a single line and doesn't have a "\n" at the end. I would like to have a script that can deal with single and multi-lined files though. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

if (!$ARGV[0]) {
        die "Please include the name of a comma-delimited text file as
+ argument.
";
} elsif ( ($ARGV[0] eq "help") or ($ARGV[0] eq "-h") or ($ARGV[0] eq "
+--help") )
 {
        die "Please include the name of a comma-delimited text file as
+ argument.
";
} else {

        $FILE = $ARGV[0];

        open FILE or die "Couldn't open file $FILE: $!\n";
        #open(FILE,"$FILE") or die "Couldn't open file $FILE: $!\n";

        while (<FILE>) {
        $file_data=<FILE>;
        }

        close FILE;

        @new_array = split /,/, $file_data;

        $i=1;

        open LOG, '>>./array_parser.log';
        print LOG localtime() . "\n";

        foreach $item (@new_array) {
                print LOG "Item i => $item\n";
                $i++;
        }

        print LOG "-------- END --------\n\n";

        close LOG;

};

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