Hello, I'm looking to complete a homework assignment I've got: "Create and test a PERL program that uses a subroutine to take a list of numbers and return the ones that are above the average (mean). Hint: consider creating another subroutine to calculate the mean. From the calling program, display the results." I've got something along so far, but it won't execute:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use List::Util qw(sum);

my @list_of_numbers = (1 .. 50);
my $i = ();
my $a = ();

sub mean {
    return sum(@_)/@_;
}

sub above_mean {
    $i == mean(@list_of_numbers);
    foreach (@list_of_numbers) {
        if ($a > $i) {
            print "$a is above mean, which is mean(@list_of_numbers)";
}

print above_mean(@list_of_numbers);
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The error I get is as follows:

Missing right curly or square bracket at main.pl line 21, at end of li
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syntax error at main.pl line 21, at EOF                               
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Execution of main.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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I feel like I might be missing something stupid but I've been working on this for a while and can't make it work. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!!!

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