I am trying to filter through a large XML file, pull out the elements I need within the value range restricted by the IF statement, and export them to CSV. However, I am a newb to programming and this is my first exposure to Perl, so I get syntax errors on lines 14 and 15 and probably doing other things wrong too. Please help me straighten this out!

Here's my code:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use XML::Twig;

my $twig= new XML::Twig(
  TwigHandlers => {town => \&town}
  );
if( my $file= $ARGV[0]) {$twig->parsefile( 'datafile_towns.xml');
$twig->flush;}

sub town {
  my ($twig, $town) = @_;
  if (my $townx($town->first_child('location')->first_child('mapx'))>5
+00){
    print $town->first_child('towndata')->first_child_text('townname')
+,
          ',', $town->first_child('player')->first_child_text('allianc
+eticker'),
          ',', $town->first_child('player')->first_child_text('playern
+ame'),
          ',', $town->first_child('towndata')->first_child_text('townn
+ame'),
          ',', $town->first_child('location')->first_child_text('mapy'
+),
          ',', $town->first_child_text('location')->first_child_text('
+mapx'),
          print "\n";
    };
    
  $twig->flush;
}

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And here's a snippet of XML:

<towns>
  <server>
    <name>servername</name>
    <servername>servername</servername>
  </server>
  <town>
    <location>
      <mapx>383</mapx>
      <mapy>-1815</mapy>
      <terraintype id="9">terraintype</terraintype>
      <terrainoveralltype id="4">terraintype</terrainoveralltype>
    </location>
    <player>
      <playername id="1">somedude</playername>
      <playerrace>Human</playerrace>
        <playeralliance>
          <alliancename id="18">somealliance</alliancename>
          <allianceticker>AL</allianceticker>
          <alliancetaxrate>0.01</alliancetaxrate>
        </playeralliance>
    </player>
    <towndata>
      <townname id="1">sometown</townname>
      <foundeddatetime>date</foundeddatetime>
      <population>1</population>
      <iscapitalcity>1</iscapitalcity>
      <isalliancecapitalcity>1</isalliancecapitalcity>
    </towndata>
  </town>

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