you're not getting output because neither of these conditions are true. 
      if (/^PER\s*$/)
      ...
      elsif (/^EMP\s*$/)
      ...

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try adding a final else clause 
else {
  print "neither PER or EMP matched!\n value is $_\n"
}

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briefly looking your code over, shouldn't the regexes be something like/^"PER"/? the ones you've got now seem to expect only PER and any number of spaces or EMP and any number of spaces. I'd also be wary of using DATA as a file handle, because it's special happy fun magic in perl. See documentation as to why, or look for __DATA__ in the monastery.
All advice unproven and untested, as I'm going home now.

In reply to Why would it? by boo_radley
in thread Why NO output??? by basicdez

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