Your problem is the line

while (<>)

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This is wrong for two reasons.

  1. You've gone to the trouble of opening a specific input filehandle, INPUT, so you should be reading from that.
  2. When you use the diamond operator, the first thing it does is to use shift to remove the first element from @ARGV. This means that there are now only two elements left in @ARGV and $ARGV[2] is undefined.

You should use

while (<INPUT>)

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instead.

Look for the section on "I/O Operators" in perldoc perlop.

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In reply to Re: confused by davorg
in thread @ARGV / Command Line Arguments by Anonymous Monk

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